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Old 04-11-2008, 01:58 PM   #1
carlosinfl
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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...
 
Old 04-11-2008, 03:10 PM   #2
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That should work although e2label seems to work primarily with ext2. Have you tried tune2fs -L label device?
 
Old 04-11-2008, 05:33 PM   #3
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Oops - its FAT32. Will this still work?
 
Old 04-11-2008, 05:38 PM   #4
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That won't work. Try mlabel.
 
Old 04-12-2008, 01:28 AM   #5
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mlabel has possibly the worst man page known to man (no pun intended)
 
Old 04-12-2008, 03:18 AM   #6
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mlabel -c drive:label ?
 
  


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