On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 08:05:22PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
>
> > Labels and UUIDs are stored only on the filesystems they come from and
> > in the blkid cache in /etc/blkid.tab. That cache is cleared and
> > regenerated whenever you reboot. You can do this at any time by
> > running:
> >
> > blkid -c /dev/null -w /etc/blkid.tab
> >
> > udev does not have a database of its own; it uses blkid to look up
> > labels and UUIDs.
> >
> > FAT filesystems actually have 2 labels, and not every tool writes to
> > both of them. Looking at the code, I think mlabel tries to do so, but
> > it might not be reliable. Try using dosfslabel instead, as I fixed that
> > a little while ago and am confident that it does the right thing.
> >
> > Ben.
>
> Hi Ben,
>
> I tried, as you adviced me, but I got no success. I used your commands, but
> this did not help. The strange thing is: if I create a new label, it is
> recognized with the new label. But when I delete the new label using mlabel
> -i
> /dev/sdb1, then the old label is again there.
[...]
Try dosfslabel instead of mlabel. If that works, report a bug in
mtools. If not... I don't know.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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- Albert Camus
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