Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition

[Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>]

Le 11/11/2016 à 16:47, Richard Owlett a écrit :
> Partitions:
>   #1 is ntfs 293 GiB [146 GiB used] labeled "FreeAgent GoFlex Drive"
>   #2 is extended partition for remainder of drive
>   #5 is fat32 62.5 GiB [31.5 GiB used] with no label
(...)
> I attempted to label partition 5 with Gparted, but the "Label" menu
> option was greyed out.
> The "Label" option was available for partition 1. I had no problem
> creating partition 6 as fat32 and labeling it.

Gparted needs external software to enable some features.
According to <http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php>, mtools is 
required to change the label on a FAT filesystem.