disk utility cannot relabel ntfs and reports error

[Leandro]

I tried to relabel my windows partition, and the disk utility reports an error, saying that
the it cannot do so for a NTFS file system.

I don't know if this is a bug, but if not, the option to relable should not be availabe.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

You'll probably see this if you don't have ntfsprogs installed. The error message could be more useful though

[Leandro (leandromartinez98)]

I continue to get the error after installing ntfsprogs.

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

In the mean time you can use ntfslabel

[DarkRedman (darkredman-deactivatedaccount)]

I've the same bug with ntfsprogs installed, and I don't find the ntfslabel package in synaptic.

Where to find this package ?

[akenjari4u (akenjari4u)]

Error creating file system: helper exited with exit code 1: cannot spawn 'mkntfs -f -L "D" /dev/sda4': Failed to execute child process "mkntfs" (No such file or directory)

This is about 80GB data worth.

I cannot even create a SWAP space. Thanks.

AJ