Hard drives and storage media

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External documentation

Linux System Administrators Guide: Chapter 5. Using Disks and Other Storage Media
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/disk-usage.html

To change the label of a usb drive, do:

For a FAT16 and FAT32:

sudo mlabel -i /dev/sdc1 ::my_label

For EXT2, EXT3, EXT4:

sudo e2label /dev/sdc1 my_label

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