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Re: mounting usb frustration

From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson(at)cox.net>
Date: Wed Aug 01 2007 - 22:13:05 EDT

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On 08/01/07 15:40, Bob McGowan wrote:
> Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:

>> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 12:14:01PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> On 08/01/07 08:05, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
>>  >
>>>> For a shorter fstab entry, can you label a digital camera and then use
>>>> LABEL="camera" instead?
>>> You can do it with fixed disks that have decent filesystems, but I
>>> doubt that anything partitioned with vfat would work.
>>
>> Can't you use mlabel?  Or mkfs.vfat with the -n parameter? 
>> Doug.
>>
>>

>
> Yes. I have used mlabel to label my XD memory cards (all of them) as
> FUJIXDCARD, and set up fstab for them with "LABEL=FUJIXDCARD..." and it
> works fine.
>
> I also have an old Muvo MP player (64MB) I'm using as portable storage
> now, also labeled the same way (MUSICDISK), it also works fine.

Well, I'm glad I'm wrong.

-- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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