Questions tagged [volume-label]
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exFAT volume label length: 11 or 15 characters?
There's a fair amount of reference material on the web that states that the maximum label length for an exFAT volume is supposed to be 11 characters. However there are two ways that I am aware of to exceed this:
Use the Linux tool exfatlabel found…
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distinction between volume and partition (terminology)
What's the definition of, and distinction between, a volume and a partition?
Wikipedia notes that a partition is created before any files or directories are written to disk. But, then, in the next breath, continues that: "Each partition, or…
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Where does NTFS store the label of a partition?
I'm using a hex editor (wxHexEditor) to explore a hard drive content. I'm looking for where the label of a partition is stored.
So the drive I'm exploring is a GPT drive formatted in NTFS. With Gparted I changed the name and the label of the…
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Use PowerShell to Retrieve Volume Label of Locked BitLocker Drive
I have a USB hard drive encrypted with BitLocker:
While it's yet unlocked, in PowerShell I want to retrieve the drive's volume label, so I run a command like this:
Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Volume |Where-Object {$_.DeviceID -like…
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How do I format disk from UEFI shell?
I need to format 2 disks from pre-built UEFI shell.
So I have 2 questions.
How do I format a disk from UEFI Shell?
How do I know what is the disk name or label?
By the way, in the first question I want to know the command.
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How to change the drive label after mapping a drive letter to a folder
On Windows 10, I wanted to map drive letters to local folders. I used subst initially, but then I found out that deleted files from the mapped drives would just disappear, rather than going to the Recycle Bin. I followed the instructions from Tony…
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RAMDrive volume inside FIle Manager
Since I managed to remove a driver installed from Internet which turned out to be a virus, there's a new volume inside my Windows 11 file explorer which is called "RAMDrive (Z:)".
However, this volume appears neither within diskmgmt.msc nor in…
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How to clear drive names/labels from windows?
I renamed a drive to m500 and another to m600 and now every time I plug in ANY external drive, windows will label it to m500 or m600.
I've tried 4 different drives of varying sizes (130gb - 5tb), same behavior.
Sometimes it'll duplicate too, so D:…
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Renaming disks: from D: to F:
How do I rename in Windows 8 disk label from D: to A:, say ?
I do know how to rename the label from KINGSTON to USB say, though.
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How do I mount a volume by label in Alpine Linux?
I'm running a Docker container based on Alpine (specifically the balenalib/armv7hf-alpine image). Within the container I want to mount a USB drive by its label, but the Alpine mount command doesn't appear to support the --label option.
I'm an Alpine…
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Get partition name and partition label on Windows 10 for GPT disks
How can I read both partition name and partition label, for a given drive with GPT partition table? I would like to do it on Windows 10. According to this post, both exist and are different on GPT (not MBR) drives:
What is the difference between a…
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