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TheXed
Asked: 2010-11-09 11:43:31 +0800 CST

How can I relabel my flash drive?

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Currently it looks like: alt text

usb-drive

3 Answers

  1. You can easily relabel your flash drive or your NTFS partition using gparted-partition manager.

    Install Gparted:

    sudo apt-get install gparted

    Goto System-->Administration-->Gparted

    Change the storage device to your Flash drive.A window will open,right click the partition and choose label to rename it.

    alt text Note: The arrow points to your storage device.By default it shows your harddisk paritions.Click there to change your storage device to your flash drive. alt text Note: Right click on it and choose label and enter your new label there..

    You can also check this link

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  2. Best Answer

    System - Administration - Disk Utility

    click the drive - unmount the drive - change label and you're done!

    mount again and everything is fine beware don't change anything else or you can destroy all your data!

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  3. For vfat (fat32) filesystem you can rename disk with:

    sudo dosfslabel /dev/sdXY new_label

    (where /dev/sdXY is partition you would like to rename)

    If the filesystem is ntfs do:

    sudo ntfslabel /dev/sdXY new_label

    Note: device should to be unmounted first.

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