USB flash drives won't mount

[Tim]

On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 14:28 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> you may be able to solve the problem giving the drive a "name". For an
> ext2/3 partition, e2label works. For a FAT partition, it is easy to do
> in Windows, but I am not sure how to do it in Linux except on a new
> partition. (mkdosfs -n option.) 

The mlabel command allows you to label DOS-like things.  The manpage for
it is a bit less than helpful in how you pick the drive to work on, you
use a drive letter, like DOS, but something else configures what the
letters refer to.  The /etc/mtools.conf file is used to associate a
device on Linux with a DOS-like drive letter.

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