On 06/14/2011 11:34 PM, James McKenzie wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Marcus D. Leech <mleech@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> mount point and the desktop icon (on my F13/GNOME system). >>> The problem continued to exist when I went to F14, and is still there >>> now that I've switched to XFCE. My main complaint isn't that it doesn't >>> work, it's that the USB devs refused to even admit that their software >>> wasn't reporting the label, even when presented with evidence directly >>> contradicting their claim. Yes, it's up to the DE to make use of the >>> label but claiming that it's reported when it is not, isn't the best way >>> to go, IMO. >> There are four items that are inherent to a USB Flash drive, regardless >> of what type of filesystem you've formatted it for: >> >> P: Vendor=0781 ProdID=5406 Rev= 0.10 >> S: Manufacturer=SanDisk >> S: Product=U3 Cruzer Micro > On my XP installation this is EXACTLY what shows up when I plug in my > USB drive. No other labels but what the device is. > > Some folks would love to see "Mikey's USB Thingie" but that is not > what is written in hardware at the first glance and is only picked up > if a device specific driver is loaded. That's not the case on a modern Linux desktop for most file systems that allow volume names/labels. Interpreting labels is done in user space (needs no special device drivers) and the use of that information is down to the desktop environment. For e.g. if I set the volume name (label) of a vfat USB key with either mkfs.vfat or the graphical gnome-disk-utility then Gnome3 in f15 mounts the key using the volume namer as the mount point name (and displays in in Computer/nautilus). Regards, Bryn. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
