How do I edit labels for a fat-32 (or vfat) partition

[Carthik Sharma]

On 9/15/05, Lee Braiden <lee_b at digitalunleashed.com> wrote:
> 
> > How can I create or edit volume labels for such partitions in linux?
> 
> You can create them when you make a vfat filesystem with mkfs.vfat -n
> labelname, and you can add them to fstab by just replacing the mount 
> device
> with LABEL=labelname. Ubuntu's automounting seems to be broken for me, so
> I'm not sure if it works with that, but I guess it should. With ext2/ext3,
> the e2label program should let you do it without formatting first. Might 
> be
> something similar available for vfat, but I haven't found it yet.


Thanks Lee,

But these partitions already exist, having been created already. So is there 
a way I can edit them?
The LABEL=labelname sure won't work for automounted drives.
I would like to know if there is something similar to e2label for vfat - 
sure would ;)

So anyone?

Carthik.

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