Hal segfaults when USB drive is connected

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:37:30 -0600, Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net> wrote:

>> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
>> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:36:04 -0500
>> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
>>
>> On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 20:52 -0600, Mike Dobbs wrote:
>> >  I'm starting to think that I didn't have any glabel.  That just added
>> > another label.  I tried glabel clear, but msdosfs/ . just keeps coming
>> > back?
>>
>> You might try:
>>
>> tunefs -L dos /dev/da0
>>
>> I'm not sure if there's a better way to rename a DOS volume from
>> FreeBSD.  Of course, if you have a Windows machine, you can just change
>> the name there.
>
> I'm afraid that tunefs does not work on non-ufs file systems. You need
> to plug it into a Windows box and rename it there. I had the same
> problem with a disk that came named "WD PASSPORT".

The mtools might be what you are looking for. If you have big FAT32, see  
here:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2008-August/020818.html

Make sure to back up your data before you try it. ;-)

Cheers,
Mezz


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