Message-ID: <63e8104a@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: Short name for USB Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <1crvbgma7vk4x$.dlg@10235314.user.individual.de> User-Agent: tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 12 Feb 2023 08:01:47 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://www.ausics.net Lines: 33 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:37024 The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 11/02/2023 15:59, David W. Hodgins wrote: >> On Sat, 11 Feb 2023 10:33:43 -0500, Gerald Gruner >> wrote: >>> Strangely there seems to be a competition to find the most >>> comoplicated way here in the thread. >>> The disk managing/formating tool provided by your distribution should be >>> able to edit the USB-stick's label. In my distribututio it is >>> gnome-disks... >> >> As this is a linux newsgroup rather then a gnome newsgroup, indicating >> the command line tools that the desktop environment gui tool uses in the >> background is appropriate. > > Gnome is built over linux. > > Anyone who is running a GUI will have a GUI based disk editing tool > > Gparted, > Gnome-disk > KDE partition manager > to name but three. I don't here, and I know of at least a couple of distros that don't come with one by default even though they have a GUI. Most people who use them probably don't need to ask questions like this though. Not all distros use partition labels to create mount point directories by default either, for that matter. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#