How to handle those "smart" device names at the CLI?

[Dotan Cohen]

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 19:07, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyway, since there are different tools for different file systems I
> wrote a very simple function.
>
> function label () {
> case $# in
> 1 | 2)
>        Device=$1
>        Label=$2
>        FileSystem=$(cat /proc/mounts | grep $Device | awk '{print $3}')
>        case ${FileSystem} in
>        "ext2" | "ext3" | "ext4")
>                sudo e2label $Device $Label;;
>        "vfat")
>                sudo dosfslabel $Device $Label;;
>        "ntfs")
>                sudo ntfslabel $Device $Label;;
>        *)
>                echo "Sorry, no support currently for ${FileSystem}.";;
>        esac;;
> *)
>        echo "Syntax: label device [name]";;
> esac
> }
>
> I added the function to ”~/.bash-functions”, which is a file that will
> run whenever I login. On my system that is, because I have the
> following lines added to my ”~/.bashrc” file:
>
> if [ -f ~/.bash-functions ]; then
>    . ~/.bash-functions
> fi
>
> So now it works like an alias, kind of. Right now I have two devices
> connected: sdb1 and sdc1. The first one is a vfat device and the other
> one a ext3 device. The label function works for both of them:
> $ label /dev/sdb1
> [sudo] password for guraknugen:
> Backup
> $ label /dev/sdc1
> Transcend
> $
>
> Of course it's easy to add support for other file systems as well, I
> just made it simple for my own use…
> And of course I take no responsibility what so ever for any damages
> caused by that function.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johnny Rosenberg
> ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ
>

Nice! I have a collection of code snippets and this one is going in
there. If as intended I ever get around to publishing them should I
attribute this to you?

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Dotan Cohen

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