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Author: Michael Havens
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Subject: Re: change name
same thing:

sudo e2label /dev/sdd1 Goodwill
e2label: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdd1
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.

could it be because it is a vfat file system? (while I love linux I like to
have the ability for my flash drives to be used on common computers)

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Mike Ballon <> wrote:

> It's I file system label so yes, you'll need to format. If there is no
> partition will have to create a partition before you can do a mkfs gparted
> should do all that for you
> On May 5, 2014 7:47 PM, "Michael Havens" <> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Mike. Does this error mean I need to format the drive?
>>
>> sudo e2label /dev/sdc1 Goodwill
>> e2label: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdc1
>> Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
>>
>> This is what 'mount' shows sdc1 to be:
>>
>> /dev/sdc1 on /media/bmike1/OpenELEC type vfat
>> (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush,uhelper=udisks2)
>>
>> and to format this and apply the label it would be:
>>
>> mkfs -t vfat /dev/sdc1;e2label /dev/sdc1 Goodwill
>>
>>
>>
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Mike Ballon <>wrote:
>>
>>> e2label
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Michael Havens <> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a few flash drives. When I plug them in to my computer a name
>>>> referring to that flash drive appears in the file manager. I have two
>>>> questions: the first is how do I change that name? The second is how do I
>>>> set that name when I format the drive?
>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>
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