Comment 8 for bug 443330

Oh, okay, so "drive name" and "label" are really synonyms. ("Label" would be the better term... by "drive name," I thought you might have been referring to the lsusb device name. Besides, this is what would appear in /dev/disk/by-label/, or be used in e.g. root=LABEL=home)

I agree that encouraging the use of labels is a good idea; device nodes and UUIDs tend to look all the same after a while. But I'd like to make sure you don't have the assumption that, when formatting an existing filesystem, that the label will necessarily be different. With usb-creator, my original intention had been to format the partition as a quicker alternative to deleting all the files therein, in any event keeping the same label and filesystem type.