[Hoary] How to assign a volume label to removeable devices ?

[Byron Poland]

On Apr 5, 2005 2:48 PM, Vincent Trouilliez
<vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> When you burn a CD, you can give it a name, and when you mount it,
> Nautilus uses this label/name to display it under the CD drive icon.
> 
> In MS-DOS you had the "volume" (IIRC) command to give a name to ZIP
> disks, floppy discs etc. How do I do that in Ubuntu ?
> Is there a unique command that works for all kind of removeable media,
> or do you multiple command for USB devices/memory cards, ZIP disk,
> floppies etc ?
> 
> That would help a lot in making Ubuntu more refined/polushed/user
> friendly.
> 
> Thanks in advance... :-)
> 
> --
> Vince
> 

I only know about ext file systems, where you can use the e2label
program.  I have extern usb and firewire drives that have ext3 file
systems on them, and I've labeled them with e2label, and when thy plug
in, the device is mounted as /medla/"label"

hope that helps