On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 16:04:42 +0000 (UTC) Go Linux <goli...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 4/28/16, Rob Owens <row...@ptd.net> wrote: > > Subject: Re: [DNG] For all you automounter programmers > To: dng@lists.dyne.org > Date: Thursday, April 28, 2016, 9:44 AM > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Steve Litt" <sl...@troubleshooters.com> > > > Do you happen to know a corresponding utility to read/write the > > label on an ext4 formatted thumb drive partition? > > > e2label /dev/sdXY my_label > > -------------------------------------------- > > Steve, I know it's a tool you probably wouldn't use but labels can > also be created with gparted. > > golinux I view parted, gparted, fdisk, sfdisk, and all of those as straight razors: One wrong move and I'm seriously wounded (or my partitions are). I only use those to create new partitions, never to label something. I'd rather go without a label than risk running those partition making programs to create the label. But thanks to e2label and dosfslabel, I don't have to. The best of both worlds! SteveT Steve Litt April 2016 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
