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hal package

  1. Bug #27897
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 27897

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: Weird name when using usb disk with dapper

Thanks for the log. It really seems that the label is severely screwed up (it doesn't look like ISO-8859 either). From your log I was able to set the label of my USB stick's partition to the same value you have.

hal should be fixed to ignore these invalid strings. In the meantime, if you can afford to reformat the drive you can set a good label with

  mkfs.vfat -n 'your label' /dev/hda2

or change the label under windows (sorry, there's currently no easy way to change the label of a VFAT partition under Linux).