Comments on: Renaming USB Drive Labels in Linux

By: Anand

Anand — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:50:46 +0000

Thanks Gparted instructions helped me…

By: John

John — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 21:41:19 +0000

Thanks, worked perfectly in CentOS 5.7

By: Hunter==bass!

Hunter==bass! — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:11:44 +0000

thnx! GParted did the trick for me

By: mathguy

mathguy — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:12:27 +0000

Thanks for a great how-to. I believe the mlabel command may have changed under 10.04, as I couldn’t get it to work from the command line. However the gparted GUI option worked like a charm. Simply run System -> Administration -> Disk Utility, click on the iPod, make sure it’s unmounted (if not, you can unmount it with the GUI), and then click the button that allows you to edit the volume label. Simple and effective. Thanks for pointing this out!

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:03:51 +0000

Thanks! The mlabel trick worked on MEPIS 8.5. The only thing to note is that the label will only be in upper case (all caps) even if you use lower case in the mlabel command.
Cheers

By: Ala Wati

Ala Wati — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:21:17 +0000

The GUI way worked! Although with few adjustments. Thanks a lot ya.

Ah but I did not read sohlside’s comment on umount thingy.

By: merle

merle — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:27:51 +0000

Excellent! Thank you.

By: Donny Bahama

Donny Bahama — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:44:44 +0000

Same here. Wish the author (or a commenter) would suggest an alternative.

By: sohlside

sohlside — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:14:30 +0000

Thanks for the article. One small tip for readers though, with sincere courtesy and respect intended, the unmount command is “umount” not “unmount”.
Thanks for this. This method is less risky than doing it in gparted IMO.

By: ian

ian — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:36:35 +0000

using ubuntu 8.04

mlabel command was not recognised
in gparted, there is no ‘label’ option

thus for me this didn’t work at all