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Changing Partition Label on Ext3

OK - I have an external USB drive that is mounted on my system as ext3.

/dev/sdc1 which mounts as /media/MUSIC on my Debian system.

Now I am attempting to rename the label from MUSIC to stuff using the e2label command and for some reason I am doing something wrong. First off in order for this to work can I have the file system mounted or should I unmount the system before I make changes?

Would this command be correct?

Code:

tunafish:/home/carlos# e2label /dev/sdc1 stuff

e2label: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdc1

Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.

I tried this command with the device mounted and umounted and neither seem to work...

That should work although e2label seems to work primarily with ext2. Have you tried tune2fs -L label device?

Oops - its FAT32. Will this still work?

That won't work. Try mlabel.

mlabel has possibly the worst man page known to man (no pun intended)

mlabel -c drive:label ?