Case-sensitively labelling a FAT32 drive
Published: Jul 5, 2020
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Under Linux
As you’d expect, it’s pretty simple. You just need fatlabel from the dosfstools package:
sudo apt-get install dosfstools
lsblk --fs
fatlabel /dev/yourdrive YourLabel
Under Windows
Windows generally won’t let you do this, always defaulting to upper-case, but there is a workaround. Create a new text file on the root of the drive called autorun.inf with the following contents.
[autorun]
label=YourLabel
[Content]
MusicFiles=false
PictureFiles=false
VideoFiles=false