Re: Setting a drive's volume label

2005-08-04 Thread Bob Greschke
"Reinhold Birkenfeld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Bob Greschke wrote: >> Looks like the "label" system command will do it in Windows. That's good >> enough for this exercise. So, in Linux...??? > > "mlabel" in the "mtools" package will do what you need. "mkfs.vf

Re: Setting a drive's volume label

2005-08-03 Thread Reinhold Birkenfeld
Bob Greschke wrote: > Looks like the "label" system command will do it in Windows. That's good > enough for this exercise. So, in Linux...??? "mlabel" in the "mtools" package will do what you need. "mkfs.vfat" can also be given a volume label, but it will not allow you to set the label without

Re: Setting a drive's volume label

2005-08-02 Thread Bob Greschke
Looks like the "label" system command will do it in Windows. That's good enough for this exercise. So, in Linux...??? "Bob Greschke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ...the name for a drive (hard or removable) that shows up when, for > example, a USB flash drive

Setting a drive's volume label

2005-08-02 Thread Bob Greschke
...the name for a drive (hard or removable) that shows up when, for example, a USB flash drive is recognized by the system. I don't know if this shows up somewhere in Linux. Can this be set from Python? I guess it would be some MFC call in Windows (I don't know anything about doing that), and