[Gllug] Labelling a memory stick

[Michael G Fletcher]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On 12 Sep 2008, at 15:53, John G Walker wrote:
> > Can someone remind me how to label a memory stick? I'm running
> > openSUSE
> > 10, using KDE, if that makes a difference, but a pointer to anything
> > command line-ish might also help my tired brain,

If it's formatted in a FAT format, then use mlabel (you may need to
install mtools from the repositories), and replace sdax with the
correct device for the memory stick

$ mlabel -i /dev/sdax "::New Name"

If it's formatted in EXT format, then I believe "tune2fs" should work.

HTH
--Michael
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