Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 11/11/2016 1:07 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> 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.

Yes and No.
The table at http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php 
indicates that dosfstools is required to work with fat16 or fat32 
partitions. Footnote 6 then indicates that mtools is required to 
label those partitions.

*HOWEVER* that is not _quite_ true. Gparted has no problem 
labeling fat16/fat32 partitions *IT* creates.