fatlabel (8)

Set or get ms-dos filesystem label

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  4. 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 the 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.

RELATED TO fatlabel…

fsck.fat(8)

mkfs.fat(8)

HOMEPAGE

More information about fatlabel and dosfstools can be found at <http://daniel-baumann.ch/software/dosfstools/>.

AUTHORS

dosfstools were written by Werner Almesberger <[email protected]>, Roman Hodek <[email protected]>, and others. The current maintainer is Daniel Baumann <[email protected]>.