NAME
ntfslabel - display/change the label on an ntfs file system
SYNOPSIS
ntfslabel [options] device [new-label]
DESCRIPTION
ntfslabel will display or change the file system label on the ntfs file system located on device.
If the optional argument new-label is not present, ntfslabel will simply display the current file system label.
If the optional argument new-label is present, then ntfslabel will set the file system label to be new-label. NTFS file system labels can be at most 128 Unicode characters long; if new-label is longer than 128 Unicode characters, ntfslabel will truncate it and print a warning message.
It is also possible to set the file system label using the -L option of mkntfs(8) during creation of the file system.
OPTIONS
Below is a summary of all the options that ntfslabel accepts. Nearly all options have two equivalent names. The short name is preceded by - and the long name is preceded by --. Any single letter options, that don’t take an argument, can be combined into a single command, e.g. -fv is equivalent to -f -v. Long named options can be abbreviated to any unique prefix of their name.
| -f, --force | |
| This will override some sensible defaults, such as not working with a mounted volume. Use this option with caution. | |
| -h, --help | Show a list of options with a brief description of each one. |
| -n, --no-action | |
| Don’t actually write to disk. | |
| -q, --quiet | |
| Reduce the amount of output to a minimum. | |
| -v, --verbose | |
| Increase the amount of output that ntfslabel prints. | |
| -V, --version | |
| Show the version number, copyright and license for ntfslabel. | |
BUGS
There are no known problems with ntfslabel. If you find a bug please send an email describing the problem to the development team: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
AUTHORS
ntfslabel was written by Matthew J. Fanto, with contributions from Anton Altaparmakov and Richard Russon.
AVAILABILITY
ntfslabel is part of the ntfsprogs package and is available from: http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/19/37
The manual pages are available online at: http://man.linux-ntfs.org/
