recognizing an external hard drive in FC4

[Tim]

On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 12:48 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
> You can use e2label to label ext2 and ext3 filesystems with a name, on
> USB sticks or not.  For vfat, you can name the filesystem at creation
> time with mkfs.vfat -n blah, AFAIK that's it.  At least dosfstools
> package doesn't seem to provide any other obvious way.

I tried giving my USB flashdrive a volume name when doing a mkfs on it,
but it was ignored (there was no volume name written to the drive).

I can't ext2/3 tools in this case.  One reason being the camera needs
whatever it already uses for storing pictures (FAT or some variant).
Another being to use the flashdrive as a simple way to take files
between different operating systems.  Not to mention that using a filing
system that does lots of little writes as you read files from it, is bad
news for RAM with a finite write life.

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