How to change a USB stick name?
Hello I just bought two identical USB sticks and they both appear to have the same name in the UEFI which is annoying since I can't choose the one I need when they are both plugged in. So how to change the name of the USB stick so it appears differently in the UEFI ? Procedures for both Windows and Linux would be nice. I tried to change the name of the volume in Windows but of course it doesn't change the name detected by the UEFI after a reboot.
Solution 1:
The command "mlabel" shall help:
Linux:
First, obtain the location of your USB drive:
sudo fdisk -l
Assuming that your device location is /dev/sdb1/
:
sudo mlabel -i /dev/sdb1 -s ::"LABEL HERE "
Windows:
There are at least 6 separate command line tools used to label a partition - the program used depends on the partition's filesystem type:
For FAT16 and FAT32 partitions, use mlabel
from the mtools package
.
For NTFS partitions, use ntfslabel
from the ntfs-3g package
.
Also:
For ext2, ext3, or ext4 partitions, use e2label.
For JFS partitions, use jfs_tune.
For ReiserFS (v3) partitions, use reiserfstune.
For XFS partitions, use xfs_admin