How to change the drive label for a fat32 partition or drive in linux.
First you need to install mtools and then edit the configuration file.
sudo gedit /etc/mtools.conf
Add something like the following to assign a drive letter to your fat32 drive
drive d: file=”/dev/sdb1″
you can find out the second bit by running mount when your device is connected
sudo mlabel -s d:
to check that it is the right one and then to change it:
sudo mlabel d:whatever
