rename flash drive auto mount point

Robert Nichols rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net
Sat Mar 26 14:48:01 UTC 2011


On 03/26/2011 08:34 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> 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.
>>
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>>
>
> 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.

You need to look at `man mtools` and read the section, "Common features of all 
mtools commands."  That section has very detailed information about how drive
letters, long file names, case sensitivity, etc., are handled.

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