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sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 4005 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

I Googled for over an hour and cfdisk was suggested, but no workie.
There`s e2label for ext2 partitions, but no e3label or M$ label utility.

It was suggested that the rox and gtk bookmarks have the volume label.
If a USB pen is labeled: Puppy, then the bookmarks show: Puppy /mnt/sda1.

amigo · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 1759

'blkid' is what you need -it will retrieve the label from nearly any filesytem type:

MU · Posted: Fri 16 Oct 2009, 08:30 Post subject:

pdrive shows labels:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=21200

the relevant part is in /usr/local/pdrive/func_probe:

MU · Posted: Fri 16 Oct 2009, 08:33 Post subject:

oh, Amigo was faster.
Yes, he is correct, blkid shows my testlabel that I just added, too Smile

A much better solution that is.

result from "blkid":

sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 4005 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

Thanks guys, it`s amazing how difficult it is to find info some times.
And other times it appears immediately, this one was slightly obscure.
I looked at mtools too, but I knew it was much more than was required.

amigo · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 1759

blkid is a great tool -much better than using 'fdisk -l' to find disks as well. I use it for my USB-auto-mounting program. One thing to be aware of is that running it creates a file /etc/blkid.tab with the info. Successively running blkid will not always refresh this file, so if you use blkid to identify disks, be sure to remove /etc/blkid.tab first so you get fresh info.
blkid is even more accurate than looking at /proc/partitions as the proc info can also become stale under certain circumstances.
Cheers!