if you unmounted then /dev/sdd1 would no longer be there.Give me a few mins and I'll spin up a VM (I'm on a Mac) and I'll run through all the steps for you.On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:bummer.... new drive:mount.../dev/sdd1 on /media/bmike1/OpenELEC type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush,uhelper=udisks2)<unmout device with file manager>bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:/media/bmike1/OpenELEC$ sudo mkfs -t vfat /dev/sdd1mkfs.vfat 3.0.13 (30 Jun 2012)/dev/sdd1: No such file or directorybmike1@PresarioLapTop1:/media/bmike1/OpenELEC$bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:/media/bmike1/OpenELEC$ sudo mkfs -t vfat /dev/sdd1mkfs.vfat 3.0.13 (30 Jun 2012)/dev/sdd1: No such file or directorybmike1@PresarioLapTop1:/media/bmike1/OpenELEC$ sudo e2label /dev/sdd1 Pny2Ge2label: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sdd1Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.what am I doing wrong?:-)~MIKE~(-:On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:that wouldn't change a vfat system but it inspired the correct search terms and I found 'dosfslabel'. Thanks for the help, man:D:-)~MIKE~(-:On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Ryan Rix <ry@n.rix.si> wrote:Yeah, you're right Mike.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RenameUSBDrive#FAT16_and_FAT32
Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> writes:
> same thing:
>
> sudo e2label /dev/sdd1 Goodwill
> e2label: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open
> /dev/sdd1
> Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
>
> could it be because it is a vfat file system? (while I love linux I
> like to have the ability for my flash drives to be used on common
> computers)
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Mike Ballon <mike.ballon@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> It's I file system label so yes, you'll need to format. If there
> is no partition will have to create a partition before you can do
> a mkfs gparted should do all that for you
>
>
>
> On May 5, 2014 7:47 PM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks Mike. Does this error mean I need to format the drive?
>
>
>
> sudo e2label /dev/sdc1 Goodwill
> e2label: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open
> /dev/sdc1
> Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
>
>
> This is what 'mount' shows sdc1 to be:
>
>
>
> /dev/sdc1 on /media/bmike1/OpenELEC type vfat
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,
> showexec,flush,uhelper=udisks2)
>
>
> and to format this and apply the label it would be:
>
> mkfs -t vfat /dev/sdc1;e2label /dev/sdc1 Goodwill
>
>
>
>
>
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Mike Ballon
> <mike.ballon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> e2label
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Michael Havens
> <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> I have a few flash drives. When I plug them in to my
> computer a name referring to that flash drive appears
> in the file manager. I have two questions: the first
> is how do I change that name? The second is how do I
> set that name when I format the drive?
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
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