F12 vfat volume label case wrong

[rbroberts]

Under both Windows and Fedora 11, my USB flash drive was mounted using the volume label of "RBR Astro". Under Fedora 12, it now gets mounted as "RBR ASTRO". I like my old case :-) It's a small nuisance, but it also ended up breaking all my links to files/directories that I store on flash :-(

How can I get the flash to mount while preserving case?

[stoat]

You may be long gone from this thread by now. But if you're still interested, you can try creating a HAL device information file (.fdi) to give the device a fake label. For example, here is how my Kingston pendrive is normally mounted in /media by its partition label (log in to see the images)...



Without changing the actual partition label, a fake label can be given to it by creating, for this example, the file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/kingston.fdi...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
   <device>
       <match key="info.udi" string="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_04AE_D658">
           <merge key="volume.label" type="string">Kingston</merge>
       </match>
   </device>
</deviceinfo>

How the pendrive is mounted after that...



If you want to try that, use lshal or gnome-device-manager to list the HAL properties of the device that you can use in the match key.

Or use Gparted to give it a new name.