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

[Svend Sorensen]

You can use the `-n volume-name' flag with mkdosfs to set the volume
name when creating a new filesystem.  I am not sure of a way to set
the label for an existing FAT filesystem.

On Apr 5, 2005 10:48 AM, 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... :-)
> 
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