On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:44:35PM +0300, Sergey Gusarov wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> With blkid utility i can find the FAT label. If the label is written
> entirely English characters, then everything is fine. Using the Windows
> you can set the label in any other language. I know this may not be
> welcome, but nevertheless it is possible and could do so many people.
> Particular, using Windows XP, I made the label "ÐÐÐÐÐÐÑÐÑÐÐ"(in Russian,
> encoded in IBM 866 at disk). In Linux with blkid 2.19 i got here is an
> unreadable output:
> /dev/sdc1: LABEL="M-^JM-^NM-^LM-^LM-^EM-^MM-^RM-^PM-^HM-^I"
> UUID="E659-39B0" TYPE="vfat"
This is probably correct label, but all non-printable ASCII characters
using '^' and M- notation. This format is also used by "cat -v".
Try
blkid -p -o udev <device>
for udev we use more sane format (\hex).
> I have no idea how i can decode such label.
> Such label also refuse to accept other programs(cfdisk, dosfslabel).
> Nevertheless, i found one that can give me the correct value of the
> label - it's blkid from busybox. It looks like this:
> /dev/sdc1: LABEL="ïïïïïïïïï" UUID="E659-39B0"
it seems that busy box prints the label in the raw format,
Karel
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