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Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition



On Fri 11 Nov 2016 at 14:45:16 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:

> On 11/11/2016 1:22 PM, David Wright wrote:
> >On Fri 11 Nov 2016 at 18:59:29 (+0100), Nicolas George wrote:
> >>Le primidi 21 brumaire, an CCXXV, Brian a écrit :
> >>>gparted for labelling a partition is overkill. Use dosfslabel.
> >>
> >>dosfslabel label will not label a partition, it will label a filesystem.
> >
> >Does a partition have a label?
> >
> >Cheers,
> >David.
> >
> >
> 
> Apparently it does according to the authors of Gparted.
> Who am I to argue?

How relevant is that to your immediate problem? Or have you forgotten
about what you asked?

Did installing mtools solve it? That is the essential point.

Once you sort that you can argue to your heart's content about labels
and what gparted says.

-- 
Brian.


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