FATLABEL

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
BUGS
AUTHORS
AVAILABILITY

NAME

fatlabel − display/change the label on a FAT file system

SYNOPSIS

fatlabel [options] device

DESCRIPTION

fatlabel will display or change the file system label on the FAT file system located on device.

If the option −l is not specified, the current volume label will be printed to standard output and no modifications will be made.

It is also possible to set the file system label using the −l option of mkfatfs(8) during creation of the file system.

OPTIONS

Below is a summary of all the options that fatlabel accepts. Nearly all options have two equivalent names. The short name is preceded by and the long name is preceded by −−.
−l
, −−label LABEL

Set the volume label of a FAT volume to LABEL. The volume label is limited to 11 ASCII units, i.e. 11 bytes in most cases.

BUGS

There are no known problems with fatlabel. If you find a bug please send an email describing the problem to fat-support@tuxera.com.

AUTHORS

fatlabel was written by Sougata Santra, Tuxera Inc.

AVAILABILITY

fatlabel is part of the Tuxera TFATprogs package.