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[ In reference to "The Monthly Troubleshooter: The USB Subsystem" in LG#133 ]

Stephane Chauveau [stephane at chauveau-central.net]
Mon, 4 Dec 2006 15:35:50 +0100 (CET)

I was reading the article about the USB subsystem yesterday and the posts at the end reminded me that I wanted to change the label on my USB key.

Unless I mistaken, the proposed commands (mkdosfs and mke2fs) are also going to reformat the partition. I wonder how many users are going to wipe out their partition while trying to change their label.

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Stephane Chauveau
https://www.chauveau-central.net

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Kapil Hari Paranjape [kapil at imsc.res.in]
Mon, 4 Dec 2006 20:49:59 +0530

Hello,

On Mon, 04 Dec 2006, Stephane Chauveau wrote:

> I was reading the article about the USB subsystem yesterday and the posts
> at the end reminded me that I wanted to change the label on my USB key.
> 
> Unless I mistaken, the proposed commands (mkdosfs and mke2fs) are also
> going to reformat the partition. I wonder how many users are going to wipe
> out their partition while trying to change their label.

Note that "tune2fs" can be used to change the label without formatting the disk.

Regards,

Kapil. --


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