ubuntu 16.04. Change label extreme portable SSD

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "PF" == Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> writes:

> On 02/02/2021 10:36, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>> Sudo mount tells me
>> /dev/sdb1 on /media/oub/Extreme SSD type fuseblk
>> (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096,uhelper=udisks2)
> [...]
>> What bothers me is the label, since it contains a space (sigh)
>> I googled but it is not entirely clear how to change the label name
>> for
>> this file format without damaging it.

> AFAIK you can't change a disk label without reformatting it.
> If you're using the command line, you should be able to out the whole
> path in quotes in order to copy everything off onto hard disk, eg

> cd <destination directory>
> tar c -C "/media/oub/Extreme SSD" . | tar xvfp -

> (I don't know if cp -r handles spaces in directory names even when
> quoted, and there may be files on the disk that have space in their 
> names too.)

Well the disk was empty so that was not the problem, but I did change
the label without data loss using gnome-disk
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