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

[Derek Broughton]

Carthik Sharma wrote:

> On 9/15/05, Carthik Sharma <carthik at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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?
> 
> May I at least know the process by which devices are automounted, and the
> config files for this, I mean, where is it that the "/media/usdbisk-*" is
> specified. Maybe using the unique device identifier string, I could mount
> the partition using a particular label, yes?

Probably in /etc/udev.  Definitely you can use udev to make it use unique
strings.  see file://usr/share/doc/udev/writing_udev_rules/index.html
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derek