partition labelling

sanmadjack · 06-02-2005, 08:55 PM

I figured this'd be more software than hardware, but anyway. I've got a thumb drive that I've formatted in fat32 (so it will work on all the OSs I am forced to endure) and I want to know how I can give the partition a label. It's easy in Windows, it's right there in the format dialog but I don't see how to do it here in Linux.

kencaz · 06-02-2005, 09:12 PM

Linux will assign it a /dev lebel such as: /dev/sda1 When you mount the drive you can label it whatever you want. Just create the folder you want the label as:

# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/ThumbDrive

KC

sanmadjack · 06-04-2005, 12:25 AM

okay, that's not labeling the partition, that's just changing the mount point. I want the label to be consistent regardless of the OS I'm on, which a partition label will do, and has done for me in the past, only now I want to do it in Linux.