USB Drive named NO_NAME?
Emily Brantley
located at bellsouth.net
Sun Nov 21 00:05:55 UTC 2004
On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 19:00 -0500, David L Norris wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 18:01 -0500, John Cox wrote:
> > /dev/sda1 /media/NO_NAME1 vfat pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
> >
> > I tried to edit the name in fstab but that had no effect.
>
> My guess would be that the FAT volume has no label. HAL and such seem
> to use the volume label on hard disk volumes where possible.
>
> You can change the volume label under Windows. I'm not sure there's a
> "native" way to change DOS volume labels on Linux. You can use mlabel
> from the mtools package (yum install mtools) but that requires you to
> assign a drive letter (e.g. 'drive f: file="/dev/sda1"'
> in /etc/mtools.conf)
oh gosh... didn't realize it was a usb hard drive partition. i'm
thinking of my usb key (which uses the vendor and product info) so i was
a little confused here...
yeah, try labelling the filesystem.
--
Emily Brantley <located at bellsouth.net>
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