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Change volume label

When using

e2label

and you get an error

Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open

this can be caused by the filesystem being not ex2, ex3, ext4 So if you want use e2label on a vfat formatted USBdrive it will not work

Alternatives

mlabel

Did not work for us

mlabel /dev/sdc1
Mtools version 4.0.17, dated June 29th, 2011
Usage: mlabel [-vscVn] [-N serial] drive:
mlabel /media/somelabel
Mtools version 4.0.17, dated June 29th, 2011
Usage: mlabel [-vscVn] [-N serial] drive:

How to edit label of USB drive?
The man page is not up to date. This uses an undocumented option and syntax. This works although even if lower case is used the label will be in all caps


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bad_magic_number_in_super-block_while_trying_to_open.txt · Last modified: 17-11-2015 15:37 by wim