fatlabel (linux command)

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The manual page and help for the linux fatlabel command. With fatlabel you can write and read the features of the FAT16 and FAT32 file systems. Never use on mounted file systems!

 

 

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man fatlabel
FATLABEL(8)                   System Manager's Manual                  FATLABEL(8)

NAME
       fatlabel - set or get MS-DOS filesystem label

SYNOPSIS
       fatlabel DEVICE [LABEL]

DESCRIPTION
       fatlabel set or gets a MS-DOS filesystem label from a given device.

       If LABEL is omitted, then the label name of the specified device is written
       on the standard output.  A label can't be longer than 11 bytes.

OPTIONS
       -h, --help
           Displays a help message.

       -V, --version
           Shows version.

SEE ALSO
       fsck.fat(8)
       mkfs.fat(8)

HOMEPAGE
       The  home  for  the  dosfstools  project  is  its   GitHub   project   page
       ⟨https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools⟩.

AUTHORS
       dosfstools   were   written   by  Werner  Almesberger  ⟨werner.almesberger@
       lrc.di.epfl.ch⟩, Roman Hodek ⟨Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de⟩,  and
       others.  The current maintainer is Andreas Bombe ⟨aeb@debian.org⟩.

dosfstools 4.1                      2015-04-16                         FATLABEL(8)

 

 

Help output

sudo fatlabel
usage: fatlabel device [label]

 

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