[ale] ignorance, just ignorance

Sparr sparr0 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 2 15:52:23 EDT 2013


Depending on your distro and its auto-mounting tools, thumb1 is probably
currently the LABEL for the thumb drive and is being used to automagically
create the /media/thumb1 directory for mounting. You can change this with
mlabel or gparted or some other tools.


On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Sean Kilpatrick <kilpatms at gmail.com> wrote:

> **
>
> After all, there is a cure for ignorance, but not stupidity.
>
> Anyway,
>
> I have this thumb drive named {thumb1} I need to rename it [thumb2]
>
> so, as root, I did this:
>
> cd /media
>
> mv thumb1 thumb2
>
> and was told that 'device or resource busy.'
>
> But if I unmount the thumb drive, then it isn't seen by the OS, and there
> isn't anything to rename.
>
> So, how do I rename this thing?
>
> Sean
>
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