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philiporlando
Asked: 2018-06-14 17:08:30 +0800 CST

Bad magic number in super-block ... contains a ntfs file system labelled 'Σ'

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I used Greek letters for my volume labels which made it unnecessarily difficult to navigate via terminal. However, when I try to rename them I get the following error:

sudo e2label /dev/sdb1 "new_name"

e2label: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb1 contains a ntfs file system labelled 'Σ'

I can't rename them via the mount properties menu either! I am not smart. Learn from my mistake. Do not use greek letters as volume labels...

Distro: Xubuntu 18.04

DE: XFCE

mount xubuntu ntfs hard-drive drive

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I should have been using ntfslabel instead of e2label.

    sudo umount /dev/sdb1
sudo ntfslabel /dev/sdb1 "new_name"
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