[ale] ignorance, just ignorance

[JD]

gparted?

On 10/02/2013 04:55 PM, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> LABEL is a clue. But so far, only a clue.
> 
> The commands mlabel and dosfslabel are really intended to change the LABEL on a
> hard drive or floppy.
> 
> So I checked with MOUNT and was told that the thumb drive is seen as /dev/sdh1
> and is mounted on /media/thumb1.
> 
> So I tried dosfslabel /dev/sdh1 thumb2 and that did NOT relabel the thumb drive.
> But if I run the command by itself <dosfslabel /dev/sdh1> it returns the new
> name -- thumb2. But, checking back at /media shows the label thumb1 -- not thumb2.
> 
> Also tried mlabel command: mlabel /dev/sdh1: thumb2, and got back the polite
> "try again" line:
> 
> Mtools version 4.0.12, dated November 3rd, 2009
> 
> Usage: mlabel [-vscVn] [-N serial] drive:
> 
> It never occurred to me it would be so difficult to discover how to relabel a
> thumb drive.
> 
> I need a beer.
>