[Gllug] Yet more problems with an external disk drive

John G Walker johngeoffreywalker at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Apr 20 21:27:34 UTC 2008



On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:36:42 +0100 "Daniel P. Berrange"
<dan at berrange.com> wrote:

> Actaully FAT can do labels - the '-n volume-name' flag to mkdosfs, or
> the  'dosfslabel /dev/blah volume-name'  command to change an existing
> filesystem

First, apologies for not responding to the original response. I didn't
receive it. This seems to happen a lot.

Secondly, the disk has a label anyway. It was originally used on a
Windows machine. I wasn't aware that fstab checked labels. I'll have to
read that up a bit more closely.

Thanks,

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 John
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