Labeling a USB drive

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Sun Dec 27 15:33:25 UTC 2009


Carmel wrote:
> I have FreeBSD-7.2 installed. I also have several USB Flash drives that
> I use. I was using the following to partition and format the drives.
> 
> # fdisk -I /dev/da4
> # bsdlabel -w /dev/da4
> 
> Now, that appears to work correctly. I would also like to "name" the
> drive. I cannot find any command that will allow me to do so. I can do
> it in Windows; however, I then have a choice of only fat, fat32 or NTFS
> for the disk.

   glabel(8)
   tunefs(8)

	Cheers

	Matthew

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