Thanks Mike, this is exactly what I needed. I'm all set now.
-Alan
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Mike Gilbert <floppymas...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Alan Warren <bluemoonsh...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > My thumbdrive has been mounting fine, but recently it started mounting
> > with strange characters in it's name.
>
> I believe most auto-mounters use the file system label when naming
> mount points. You can view or modify this with the tools appropriate
> for the specific file system.
>
> For FAT, use dosfslabel from the sys-fs/dosfstools package.
>
> For ext{2,3,4}, use "tune2fs -L" from the sys-fs/e2fsprogs package.
>
> I'm guessing that something messed up the label.
>
>
