[ale] ignorance, just ignorance

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Sean Kilpatrick <kilpatms at gmail.com> writes:

> 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:

Did you unmount and remount the drive after you re-labeled it?

-derek

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