Renaming a USB Drive in Linux Mint

<div class="pull-right"><div>Temperature -1F/-18C<p dir="auto"><br /> <hr /> <p dir="auto"><center><h2>Whats in a Name?<br /> As time passes on we end up with a lot of thumb drives, at least I am ending up with a lot of thumb drives. A lot with pictures and a lot with other stuff, but most importantly some with back-up information on them, and in the case of Linux my self boot re-install I screwed something up major drive. <p dir="auto">There is actually a few different methods and some work for some, some work for others and some just do not seem to work at all. I am very very new to the Linux operating system. It seemed like it took forever to figure out screen capture but I did manage to figure that one out. Most important one for me on screen capture is the alt+prtscr combo button use, it allows the capture of a window. <p dir="auto"><h3>Step 1<br /> <img src="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/bashadow/23w2ctfDvucTCuMygACXrkpopeZFzWNPVe2AJnCEu4eZQRbPts2KamwuDkVRMkCzoCF5A.png" alt="Step 1 Name Change" srcset="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/bashadow/23w2ctfDvucTCuMygACXrkpopeZFzWNPVe2AJnCEu4eZQRbPts2KamwuDkVRMkCzoCF5A.png 1x, https://images.hive.blog/1536x0/https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/bashadow/23w2ctfDvucTCuMygACXrkpopeZFzWNPVe2AJnCEu4eZQRbPts2KamwuDkVRMkCzoCF5A.png 2x" /><p> <p dir="auto">This is step one of how to rename a thumb drive.<br /> It starts with <code>sudo fdisk -l, this gives you the view of all disk stuff 99% of which I know nothing nor could care about. The important line is the last line <code>dev/sdc1 that basically equals your thumb drive.<br /> <h3>Step 2<code>sudo file /dev/sdc1 -s will give you this:<p> <p dir="auto"><img src="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/bashadow/23xARAQEnykr1BkoMT4yiCnkfe3YuS7ML8hA2SArEyMMwFS2qJJojH3AqZBiJzTdpvZcJ.png" alt="Step 2 Drive Verification" srcset="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/bashadow/23xARAQEnykr1BkoMT4yiCnkfe3YuS7ML8hA2SArEyMMwFS2qJJojH3AqZBiJzTdpvZcJ.png 1x, https://images.hive.blog/1536x0/https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/bashadow/23xARAQEnykr1BkoMT4yiCnkfe3YuS7ML8hA2SArEyMMwFS2qJJojH3AqZBiJzTdpvZcJ.png 2x" /><br /> This step verifies that you are looking at the right drive you want o rename. You can see in the last line the drive is named TDrive. (I had already played with and renamed it a few times) <p dir="auto"><h3>Step 3The final step is renaming it. The maximum number of characters for a drive name I found was ten (10).<br /> <code>sudo mlabel -i /dev/sdc1 -s ::"TDrive2" You would replace <strong>lable: "TDrive2     " in the above image, (<em>Step 2 Drive Verification) with the name you want to use.<p> <p dir="auto"><img src="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/bashadow/23xKou5nutVqoavDmhRhsKjD5JdgAf86J19Aq6qaRvuoCDmiK2cGM28e5MYqaKtPXFGWf.png" alt="Step 3 Rename the drive" srcset="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/bashadow/23xKou5nutVqoavDmhRhsKjD5JdgAf86J19Aq6qaRvuoCDmiK2cGM28e5MYqaKtPXFGWf.png 1x, https://images.hive.blog/1536x0/https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/bashadow/23xKou5nutVqoavDmhRhsKjD5JdgAf86J19Aq6qaRvuoCDmiK2cGM28e5MYqaKtPXFGWf.png 2x" /><br /> The final name I settled on was simply <strong>Back Up. <hr /> <p dir="auto"><h4>Notes<br /> You may or may not need these additional steps run between step 2 and 3:<p> <pre><code> `sudo apt-get install mtools` Then you might need to configure the mtools drives settings, hence add the following two lines to /etc/mtools.conf (you will need sudo to edit) second and third drives, first partition drive u: file="/dev/sdb1" drive v: file="/dev/sdc1" From: """https://askubuntu.com/questions/103686/how-do-i-rename-a-usb-drive""" <hr /> <p dir="auto">It seems that a lot of the help stuff for Linux is pretty difficult to read and figure out at times. none of the sites I looked at mentioned how long a name you could use, I figured it out by trial and error. <p dir="auto">The above excerpt is typical of most of the stuff I found when trying to figure it out some useful, some not so much <hr /> <p dir="auto">My desktop with the renamed drive, no reboot or refresh or anything once changed in the terminal window it showed the new name. <p dir="auto"><img src="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/bashadow/23tRt95HH9M3obnJkgS1gVbWFtxoRXgTX2GoFsid9oWDHgN3oMPc9yJcxJi1Gm7H5o2hG.png" alt="My Desktop 1-7-22" srcset="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/bashadow/23tRt95HH9M3obnJkgS1gVbWFtxoRXgTX2GoFsid9oWDHgN3oMPc9yJcxJi1Gm7H5o2hG.png 1x, https://images.hive.blog/1536x0/https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/bashadow/23tRt95HH9M3obnJkgS1gVbWFtxoRXgTX2GoFsid9oWDHgN3oMPc9yJcxJi1Gm7H5o2hG.png 2x" /> <p dir="auto">I hope a few found this useful, I will be trying to share things as I find them if I think they would be of help, I think the renaming of thumb drives is a good thing to know. 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