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I have a flash drive that is formatted as exFAT. I wish to change the label of the drive without formatting.

I've seen ways of doing this for ext4, fat or ntfs partitions but not for exFAT. Is this possible? how?

To Do
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Depending on the tools you are using (or that are available for your distributions) you'll need to use either exfatlabel

exfatlabel <device> <label>

from exfat-utils which is provided by the older FUSE implementation of exFAT or tune.exfat

tune.exfat -L <label> <device>

from exfatprogs which is the userspace counterpart of the 5.7 kernel implementation and should be available in newer distributions.

Vojtech Trefny
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  • Not sure if this was a new addition since the original date from this response, but now exfatprogs also provides an exfatlabel utility, so you can use the first one anyway. – Leonardo Dagnino Jul 07 '23 at 22:08
  • sudo exfatlabel /dev/sdb1 ExtremePro did the trick for me (original label was "Extreme Pro"), with exfatprogs 1.2.2-1 (on linux 6.6.10-1-lts). – msoutopico Jan 10 '24 at 16:36
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Did not try it out, but exfatlabel should do what you need.

Henry78
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