Re: Renaming USB WD 2TB drives
On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 07:11:30PM -0500, Max Pyziur wrote:
On Mon, 5 Feb 2018, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 13:38:32 -0500, Bill Shirley wrote:
>
> > What's the output of
> > fdisk -l /dev/sdb
> >
> > Bill
>
> Note that fdisk would only show the partition type value, not the
> actual fs.
>
> "parted /dev/sdb p" tries to detect the fs type.
root@pegasus ~> parted /dev/sdb p
Model: WD My Passport 25E1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 2000GB 2000GB ntfs My Passport msftdata
As the FS appears to be ntfs rather than fat,
have you tried ntfslabel rather then fatlabel?
jon
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