mlabel(1)							    mlabel(1)



Name
       mlabel - make an MSDOS volume label



Note of warning
       This  manpage  has  been automatically generated from mtools's texinfo
       documentation, and may not be entirely accurate or complete.  See  the
       end of this man page for details.


Description
       The mlabel command adds a volume label to a disk. Its syntax is:
       mlabel [-vcsn] [-N serial] drive:[new_label]


       Mlabel  displays the current volume label, if present. If new_label is
       not given, and if neither the c nor the s options are set, it  prompts
       the  user for a new volume label.  To delete an existing volume label,
       press return at the prompt.

       Reasonable care is taken to create a valid MS-DOS volume label.	If an
       invalid label is specified, mlabel changes the label (and displays the
       new label if the verbose mode is set). Mlabel returns 0 on success  or
       1 on failure.

       Mlabel supports the following options:

       c      Clears an existing label, without prompting the user

       s      Shows the existing label, without prompting the user.

       n      Assigns a new (random) serial number to the disk

       N serial
	      Sets  the	 supplied  serial number. The serial number should be
	      supplied as an 8 digit hexadecimal number, without spaces


See Also
       Mtools' texinfo doc

Viewing the texi doc
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       items, such as crossreferences, footnotes and indices are lost in this
       translation  process.   Indeed, these items have no appropriate repre-
       sentation in the manpage format.	 Moreover, not	all  information  has
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       to use the original texinfo doc.	 See the  end  of  this	 manpage  for
       instructions how to view the texinfo doc.

       *      To generate a printable copy from the texinfo doc, run the fol-
	      lowing commands:

		     ./configure; make dvi; dvips mtools.dvi



       *      To generate a html copy,	run:

		     ./configure; make html

	      A premade html can be found  at:	'http://mtools.linux.lu'  and
	      also at: 'http://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/mtools'

       *      To  generate  an	info copy (browsable using emacs' info mode),
	      run:

		     ./configure; make info



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       the  info  version  certain  examples are difficult to read due to the
       quoting conventions used in info.




mtools-3.9.9			   03Mar03			    mlabel(1)

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