Category Archives: Desktop

Taking a step back: The Sad Story of My VMware Downgrade

A short time ago I wrote about upgrading my personal systems at home and work to VMware Server 2.0, and gave what I thought were some compelling reasons why it was A Good Thing ™.
Unfortunately, the one issue I haven’t been able to work around has been my inability to get any guest, whether upgraded [...]

Relabel a USB stick

Every once in awhile you need to change things. In my case that time came with the purchase of a second 4 GB USB stick. Because it’s formatted FAT32 (or in Linux-speak, vfat), the right tool to use comes out of the mtools package.
Here’s the command:
mlabel -i /dev/[device] “:: [NewName]“
An example:
mlabel -i /dev/sdb1 “:: KINGS4G1″
Be [...]