[CoLoCo] Renaming a volume

Michael "TheZorch" Haney thezorch at gmail.com
Tue Nov 6 02:51:53 GMT 2007


I don't know how to answer this question in regards to Linux but on a 
Mac just inserting the USB flash drive or portable hard drive mounts it 
just like in Windows.

John Edwards wrote:
> Hello;
>
> I'm trying to change the volume name on a USB drive, formatted FAT32 
> and cannot get Vista to conform.  The volume needs to have a certain 
> name, in lower case, and vista insists on using Upper case letters.  
> It only seems to do this with the USB drive, since my hard drives have 
> mixed cases.
>
> The reason for lower case is that the path that it ends up using is 
> dependent on the specific case, and I have no idea how to manually 
> mount a device like this on a Mac.  The script we will be running from 
> the drive will need the path to be correct.
>
> So my question is, is there a way to change the volume name under 
> Linux?  I've not tried doing this on XP yet, since I have to reboot my 
> laptop to do that, and I'm in the middle of another project at the 
> moment.
>
>
> John Edwards
> -- 
> Rule #1 of working in any creative field in the 21st century should 
> be: Your Fans Are Not The Enemy.
> -- Charlie Stross. 


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