On 11/11/2016 09:47 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
Several years ago I purchased an external 1 TB USB connected
drive for backups.
The base of the enclosure says it is a Seagate drive.
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 successfully mounted partitions 1 and 5. Both are readable
and contain files from unknown Windows machines. On my Windows
Desktop hardware C:\Documents and Settings\user\Recent
indicates that it had been used on that machine back in 2011.
There is similar evidence that it had been used on my Windows
Laptop in 2012. Neither machine reports files with "goflex" in
filename {case insensitive search}.
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.
It has been some time since I have had to do anything similar.
However, as I recall, if the partition is mounted, gparted will
not add/change the label. You have to unmount the partition
first, which gparted will do (with a different command). Once
unmounted, gparted is then willing to modify the partition. I
know this sounds obvious, but then sometimes it is the most
obvious things we overlook:-)
Any suggestions as to what the problem is?
Is there another option that would allow me to label the
partition with no other effects on that partition?
TIA