{"id":117,"date":"2020-03-08T22:10:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T03:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/donaldfcooley.info\/?p=117"},"modified":"2020-03-08T22:10:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T03:10:33","slug":"make-an-ntfs-formatted-usb-drive-with-a-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donaldfcooley.info\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"make an ntfs formatted usb drive with a label"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For some reason, I found it difficult to find the answer as to how I could take an USB thumb drive,  format it with the NTFS file system, and label it. All from the command line and on Linux. After Googling, Duck Duck Go-ing it, and searching with Qwant I remembered that I have a handy little program installed called tldr. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>tldr mkfs.ntfs<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the results was the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Create filesystem with a volume-label:                                                                    mkfs.ntfs -L {{volume_label}} {{\/dev\/sdb1}}<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So first of all I needed to find the right device name for the thumb drive I had plugged in so I didn&#8217;t overwrite my 200 gigabyte home folder!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>lsblk:\nsdc               8:32   1   7.6G  0 disk  \n\u2514\u2500sdc1            8:33   1   7.6G  0 part<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that I had the right device to write to, I could create a file system on it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo mkfs.ntfs \/dev\/sdc1 -L \"THE WALKING DEAD\"<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Bingo! That did the trick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, I found it difficult to find the answer as to how I could take an USB thumb drive, format it with the NTFS file system, and label it. All from the command line and on Linux. After Googling, Duck Duck Go-ing it, and searching with Qwant I remembered that I have a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/donaldfcooley.info\/?p=117\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">make an ntfs formatted usb drive with a label<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,26,27,24,25],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-label","tag-linux","tag-lsblk","tag-mkfs-ntfs","tag-ntfs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donaldfcooley.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donaldfcooley.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donaldfcooley.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donaldfcooley.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donaldfcooley.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/donaldfcooley.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/donaldfcooley.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donaldfcooley.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donaldfcooley.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donaldfcooley.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}