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Linux - Modify the partitions labels

Latest update on May 2, 2011 at 11:16 AM by jad05 .

ext2/ext3 Partitions
FAT/FAT16/FAT32 Partitions
NTS Partitions

All these commands should be done by the administrator (root mode).
Give names of the simplest possible partitions (if possible using only alphanumeric characters (a. .. z and 0 ... 9) and - and _.

ext2/ext3 Partitions

There are two commands:

```
tune2fs -L my_label /dev/partition
```
```
/sbin/e2label /dev/partition my_label
```

FAT/FAT16/FAT32 Partitions

You must install the mtools utility package.

Then type:

sudo mlabel -i /dev/partition ::my_label

NTS Partitions

You must install the ntfsprogs package

The command to be used is:

```
ntfslabel /dev/partition my_label.
```

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