Changing the label (name) of partitions.

Last update on March 18, 2009 07:39 AM by deri58
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Changing the label (name) of partitions






All commands must be given as administrator (root mode).
Give the simplest names possible to partitions (if possible only alphanumeric characters (a. .. z and 0 ... 9) and - and _.
  • Partition ext2/ext3


There are two commands: 

tune2fs -L my_label /dev/partition

/sbin/e2label /dev/partition my_label
  • Partition FAT/FAT16/FAT32


You have to install the mtools package.
Then type: 

sudo mlabel -i /dev/partition ::my_label
  • NTFS partition


You have to install the ntfsprogs package.
The command is: 
ntfslabel /dev/partition my_label.
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