[ale] ignorance, just ignorance

[Sean Kilpatrick]

LABEL is a clue. But so far, only a clue.

The commands mlabel and dosfslabel  are really intended to change the 
LABEL on a hard drive or floppy.

So I checked with MOUNT and was told that the thumb drive is seen as 
/dev/sdh1 and is mounted on /media/thumb1.

So I tried dosfslabel /dev/sdh1 thumb2 and that did NOT relabel the thumb 
drive.  But if I run the command by itself <dosfslabel /dev/sdh1> it 
returns the new name -- thumb2.  But, checking back at /media shows the 
label thumb1 -- not thumb2.

Also tried mlabel command:  mlabel /dev/sdh1: thumb2, and got back the 
polite "try again" line:
    Mtools version 4.0.12, dated November 3rd, 2009
    Usage: mlabel [-vscVn] [-N serial] drive:


It never occurred to me it would be so difficult to discover how to relabel 
a thumb drive.

I need a beer.

Sean

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On Wednesday, October 02, 2013 03:52:23 pm Sparr wrote:
> Depending on your distro and its auto-mounting tools, thumb1 is
> probably currently the LABEL for the thumb drive and is being used to
> automagically create the /media/thumb1 directory for mounting. You can
> change this with mlabel or gparted or some other tools.
> 
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Sean Kilpatrick <kilpatms at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > **
> > 
> > After all, there is a cure for ignorance, but not stupidity.
> > 
> > Anyway,
> > 
> > I have this thumb drive named {thumb1} I need to rename it [thumb2]
> > 
> > so, as root, I did this:
> > 
> > cd /media
> > 
> > mv thumb1 thumb2
> > 
> > and was told that 'device or resource busy.'
> > 
> > But if I unmount the thumb drive, then it isn't seen by the OS, and
> > there isn't anything to rename.
> > 
> > So, how do I rename this thing?
> > 
> > Sean
> > 
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