Labling a live usb stick

[Geoffrey Leach]

I'm using mediawriter to create a USB boot stick. Works fine.

I would like to label the USB stick. 

AFAIK mediawriter does not have that option. gparted does not have that
ability either.

It appears that livecd-tools does, but it appears that it requires a
kickstart file.

Any suggestions for a simple solution?  thanks.

[Tim]

On Thu, 2023-01-26 at 10:26 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>  I would like to label the USB stick. 
>  
>  AFAIK mediawriter does not have that option. gparted does not have that
>  ability either. 
I'm pretty sure the last time I renamed something I used gparted. 
There is a "name partition" function in there, but it may depend on
what filesystem you're using on the stick.

 
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[stan]

On Thu, 26 Jan 2023 10:26:27 -0800
Geoffrey Leach <geoffleach.gl(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  I'm using mediawriter to create a USB boot stick. Works fine.
>  
>  I would like to label the USB stick. 
>  
>  AFAIK mediawriter does not have that option. gparted does not have
>  that ability either.
>  
>  It appears that livecd-tools does, but it appears that it requires a
>  kickstart file.
>  
>  Any suggestions for a simple solution?  thanks. 
I'm not sure if this will work, but if you are using an ext file
system, you can try to use e2label to set the label of the
partition. Something like that probably exists for btrfs, but I don't
know what it is.