Re: controlling mount options on FC5?
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 04:34 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
(b) mtools has a program mlabel(1) which can add a label to a vfat
file system. Unfortunately, to operate on a device, that device
needs to be assigned a CP/M-style drive letter in
/etc/mtools.conf. For USB drives this is very unsatisfactory
because every time you plug in the drive, it might be somewhere
else in /dev. And don't forget to unmount the drive's file system
before using mlabel.
I think you'd only have to do that the once when assigning it a name.
Thereafter, the device should have that name until you change it.
Unless you're in the habit of perpetually renaming it, it shouldn't be
too much of a problem.
Having said that, I wanted to do this with a flashdrive on FC4, but
couldn't get it to work. Subsequently I found my flashdrive to be
seriously faulty, so I don't know if I couldn't set the name because the
drive was duff, or some other reason. I don't have another drive to
test with.
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