rename flash drive auto mount point

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sat Mar 26 13:34:34 UTC 2011


On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 23:49 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:
> On 03/25/2011 08:56 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> > On 03/25/2011 04:33 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >> Look I don't want to be difficult. But this is a Fedora list and the
> >> command mlabel that you are using does not exist in Fedora 14. So your
> >> information about changing usb drive labels using mlabel -i
> >> is useless to Fedora users.
> >
> > Let;s be clear here, since Tom, Carroll, mike, and Howard seem to have
> > missed Aaron's point:
> >
> > Yes, mlabel is a part of Fedora.
> >
> > But, the version of mlabel that Fedora provides does *not* support the
> > -i flag that the posted solution says to use.  Perhaps the -i flag is an
> > Ubuntu only extension to their version of mlabel?
> 
> My Fedora 14 installation (a new install, not an upgrade) has
> mtools-4.0.13-2.fc14.i686, and its mlabel command definitely _does_
> support the "-i" option.
> 
> -- 
> Bob Nichols     "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address.
>                  Do NOT delete it.
> 

The4 mystery is getting deeper.. I have the same mtools installed and
the mlabel which the rpm -qf reports comes from that rpm does not have a
-i option. Just for laughs I brought up my Live Ubuntu version 10.10 and
the mlabel in that distribution also does not have a -i option.
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