change name

[Michael Havens]

that wouldn't change a vfat system but it inspired the correct search terms
and I found 'dosfslabel'. Thanks for the help, man:D

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Ryan Rix <ry at n.rix.si> wrote:

> 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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