Naming USB meory stick

Hi everyone, I've come to this forum not knowing any better where else to put this question. I've read some replies as to naming usb sticks/thumb drives. Some say you can't name them. And in my little experience with linux (since jan.09) have not been able to find a way to do it.

If this is the case with linux, I would just about expect a remedy for this. Mostly because I can name sticks in windows and the naming is preserved when passed over to ubuntu. And I also know what ever you can do in windows, you can do with linux and probably better.

Anyone know how to name usb drives. I'm using ubuntu jaunty. I have tried karmic beta about 3 weeks prior to final release. Liked it for the most part, but for me, continually went south. Thanks for any and all input, a2z

I'm pretty sure you can do this with GPartEd - the disk partitioning tool. Just be careful with it!

Steve.

squaregoldfish said: I'm pretty sure you can do this with GPartEd - the disk partitioning tool. Just be careful with it!

Steve.

This is good news.

Thanks, I hope it works

a2z

You can also do this while formatting the partition using fdisk.

$ sudo mkfs.vfat -F 16 -n liveusb /dev/sdb1

The label would be livusb in the above example.

Or if you already have a partition you can follow this guide for both gparted and CLI.

I did the following on my usb-thumbdrive

sudo mlabel -i /dev/sdb1 -s ::

And received the following:

Total number of sectors (1973410) not a multiple of sectors per track (61)! Add mtools_skip_check=1 to your .mtoolsrc file to skip this test

Then I added this:

echo mtools_skip_check=1 >> ~/.mtoolsrc

and re-ran the previous command:

sudo mlabel -i /dev/sdb1 -s ::

This time it showed me this:

Volume has no label

I edited the following:

sudo nano /etc/mtools.conf

and added this line to the end of the .conf file.

drive p: file="/dev/sdb1"

and saved my changes.

sudo mlabel p:usb-ubuntu

then ran the following again:

sudo mlabel -i /dev/sdb1 -s ::

and saw this:

Volume label is USB-UBUNTU

I just did this on Karmic without any troubles.

Hope this helps!

Chris Crisafulli itnet7/irc.freenode.net Ubuntu Florida Team