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

[Magnus Therning]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 06:50:11AM -0400, Carthik Sharma wrote:
>I have external HDDs which have vfat partitions without labels. So ubuntu 
>automounts them to /media/usbdisk(-n)
>I understand that this is because the partitions or drives dont have volume 
>labels.
>
>How can I create or edit volume labels for such partitions in linux?

Have you checked if any of the tools in the mtools package can do it?

/M

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