change name

[Ryan Rix]

Yeah, you're right Mike.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RenameUSBDrive#FAT16_and_FAT32

Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> writes:
> 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 <mike.ballon at gmail.com>
> 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" <bmike1 at gmail.com> 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
>         <mike.ballon at gmail.com> wrote:
>         
>         
>             e2label
>             
>             
>             
>             
>             On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Michael Havens
>             <bmike1 at gmail.com> 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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