device label

[Robert Holtzman]

Tried to change the label on a thumb drive using 

e2label /dev/sdb1 disk

and got "e2label: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open
/dev/sdb
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock."

fdisk -lu shows 

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *         128     3915775     1957824    b  W95 FAT32
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(242, 254, 63) logical=(243, 190, 11)

A search on the error message and on the output of disk turned up
several hits but they had to do with the inability to mount. 

Also tried to use gparted but the label option was greyed out.

All this on a fully updated Lucid.

Any ideas?

-- 
Bob Holtzman
Key ID: 8D549279
"If you think you're getting free lunch,
 check the price of the beer"
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