On Fri 11 Nov 2016 at 09:47:40 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Several years ago I purchased an external 1 TB USB connected drive for
> backups.
> The base of the enclosure says it is a Seagate drive.
> Partitions:
> #1 is ntfs 293 GiB [146 GiB used] labeled "FreeAgent GoFlex Drive"
> #2 is extended partition for remainder of drive
> #5 is fat32 62.5 GiB [31.5 GiB used] with no label
>
>
> I successfully mounted partitions 1 and 5. Both are readable and contain
> files from unknown Windows machines. On my Windows Desktop hardware
> C:\Documents and Settings\user\Recent indicates that it had been used on
> that machine back in 2011. There is similar evidence that it had been used
> on my Windows Laptop in 2012. Neither machine reports files with "goflex" in
> filename {case insensitive search}.
>
> I attempted to label partition 5 with Gparted, but the "Label" menu option
> was greyed out.
> The "Label" option was available for partition 1. I had no problem creating
> partition 6 as fat32 and labeling it.
>
> Any suggestions as to what the problem is?
> Is there another option that would allow me to label the partition with no
> other effects on that partition?
gparted for labelling a partition is overkill. Use dosfslabel.
--
Brian.
