Rename external HD

[David Restall - System Administrator]

Hi Bob,

> I did read that section.  In fact I read it before I posted to the
> list.  No where in that section does in indicate how to apply the
> mkdosfs command to an external drive.  If you could be so kind as to
> provide me with the method to apply this information to my particular
> circumstance I would be very appreciative.

I've been following this but thought you would have had it solved by
now.

I'd be very careful using mkdosfs (or any of the mkfs commands) because
you _could_ end up putting a new file system onto the drive and lose
the data on said drive.

What may be better would be a quick and dirty fix :-

cd /media
ln -s 'External HD' External_HD

Then you can reference it using /media/External_HD :-)

Alternatively try :-

df -T
.....
/dev/sda1 ext3 288435200 154608352 119175168 57% /media/Backup Disk
^^^^^^^^^

tune2fs -L Backup_Disk /dev/sda1

I don't know if it works with a DOS disk - never used one of those for
years :-)

You'll need to do these as root so prefix them with sudo.

Hope this helps.


Dave
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> If you want to change the mount point, it may be 
> Bob
> 
> On 5/30/07, Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 18:09 -0800, Bob Cortez wrote:
> > > The file system of the hd is vfat.
> >
> > Then you should have followed my advice and read the SEE ALSO section of
> > "man mkfs", which would have forwarded you to "man mkfs.vfat", where you
> > would have found this:
> >
> > SYNOPSIS
> > mkdosfs  [  -A  ] [ -b sector-of-backup ] [ -c ] [ -l filename ] [ -C ]
> > [ -f number-of-FATs ] [ -F FAT-size ] [ -h number-of-hidden-sectors ]
> > [ -i volume-id ] [ -I ] [ -m message-file ] [ -n volume-name ] [ -r
> > root-dir-entries ] [ -R number-of-reserved-sectors ] [ -s
> > sectors-per-cluster  ]  [-S logical-sector-size ] [ -v ] device
> > [ block-count ]
> >
> > ...
> >
> > -n volume-name
> > Sets the volume name (label) of the filesystem.  The volume name can be
> > up to 11 characters long.  The default is no label.
> >
> >
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