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12-28-2008, 02:15 PM
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Registered: May 2006
Location: Mt Umunhum, CA, USA, Earth
Distribution: Debian/ Fedora/ Ubuntu/ Raspbian
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Labeling a fat16 partition
Hi group,
I'm not a newbie but this seems like a newbie question.
I can use e2label to label ext2 and ext3 partitions, what do
I use to label an MSDOS partition?? Needed for fstab, LABEL=xxx.
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12-28-2008, 02:28 PM
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Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Bologna
Distribution: CentOS 6.5 OpenSuSE 12.3
Posts: 10,509
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You can try the mlabel command, that is part of the mtools package.
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12-30-2008, 01:08 PM
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Location: Mt Umunhum, CA, USA, Earth
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That did it
Quote:
Originally Posted by colucix
You can try the mlabel command, that is part of the mtools package.
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Thanks, it worked,
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