[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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