Re: Renamiing a USB external h/d

2012-01-13 Thread Sharon Kimble
Thanks Andrei, its now all working perfectly. Sharon. On 13 January 2012 12:28, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 13 ian 12, 11:06:26, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> OKay, this is what I did;- >> sudo umount /dev/sdb1 >> >> sudo e2label /dev/sdb1 backup >> >> sudo mkdir /media/backup >> >> sudo emacs /

Re: Renamiing a USB external h/d

2012-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 13 ian 12, 11:06:26, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > OKay, this is what I did;- > sudo umount /dev/sdb1 > > sudo e2label /dev/sdb1 backup > > sudo mkdir /media/backup > > sudo emacs /etc/fstab > The fstab line now looks like this;- > #/dev/sdb1 /media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459_

Re: Renamiing a USB external h/d

2012-01-13 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 12 January 2012 18:39, hvw59601 wrote: > Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> On 12 January 2012 14:28, hvw59601 wrote: >>> >>> Sharon Kimble wrote: I have a USB external hard drive for my backups which is formatted ext 3. It is currently named as '/media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c

Re: Renamiing a USB external h/d

2012-01-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 12 ian 12, 12:38:32, Sharon Kimble wrote: > I have a USB external hard drive for my backups which is formatted ext > 3. It is currently named as > '/media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459_ ' and mounted via fstab. You are showing here a mountpoint (the directory where a filesystem is m

Re: Renamiing a USB external h/d

2012-01-12 Thread hvw59601
Sharon Kimble wrote: On 12 January 2012 14:28, hvw59601 wrote: Sharon Kimble wrote: I have a USB external hard drive for my backups which is formatted ext 3. It is currently named as '/media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459_ ' and mounted via fstab. I've tried using e2label as follows;- s

Re: Renamiing a USB external h/d

2012-01-12 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 12 January 2012 14:28, hvw59601 wrote: > Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> I have a USB external hard drive for my backups which is formatted ext >> 3. It is currently named as >> '/media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459_ ' and mounted via fstab. >> >> I've tried using e2label as follows;- >> sudo

Re: Renamiing a USB external h/d

2012-01-12 Thread hvw59601
Sharon Kimble wrote: I have a USB external hard drive for my backups which is formatted ext 3. It is currently named as '/media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459_ ' and mounted via fstab. I've tried using e2label as follows;- sudo e2label /media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459_ /media/ba

Re: Renamiing a USB external h/d

2012-01-12 Thread Nicolas Bercher
On 12/01/2012 13:38, Sharon Kimble wrote: I have a USB external hard drive for my backups which is formatted ext 3. It is currently named as '/media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459_ ' and mounted via fstab. I've tried using e2label as follows;- sudo e2label /media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d3

Re: Renamiing a USB external h/d

2012-01-12 Thread Balint Szigeti
On 12/01/2012 12:38, Sharon Kimble wrote: I have a USB external hard drive for my backups which is formatted ext 3. It is currently named as '/media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459_ ' and mounted via fstab. I've tried using e2label as follows;- sudo e2label /media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d3

Re: Renamiing a USB external h/d

2012-01-12 Thread Tomasz Kundera
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Sharon Kimble wrote: > I have a USB external hard drive for my backups which is formatted ext > 3. It is currently named as > '/media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459_ ' and mounted via fstab. If it is mounted via fstab create a mount point before mount (it ca

Renamiing a USB external h/d

2012-01-12 Thread Sharon Kimble
I have a USB external hard drive for my backups which is formatted ext 3. It is currently named as '/media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459_ ' and mounted via fstab. I've tried using e2label as follows;- sudo e2label /media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459_ /media/backup e2label: Is a dire