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.\" Copyright (c) 2002 Anton Altaparmakov. All Rights Reserved.
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.\" Adapted from e2fsprogs-1.26/misc/e2label.8.in by Theodore Ts'o.
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.TH NTFSLABEL 8 "April 2002" "Linux-NTFS version @VERSION@"
.SH NAME
ntfslabel \- display/change the label on an ntfs file system
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B ntfslabel
.I device
[
.I new-label
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B ntfslabel
will display or change the file system label on the ntfs file system located on
.IR device .
.PP
If the optional argument
.I new-label
is not present,
.B ntfslabel
will simply display the current file system label.
.PP
If the optional argument
.I new-label
is present, then
.B ntfslabel
will set the file system label to be
.IR new-label .
NTFS file system labels can be at most 128 Unicode characters long; if
.I new-label
is longer than 128 Unicode characters,
.B ntfslabel
will truncate it and print a warning message.
.PP
It is also possible to set the file system label using the
.B \-L
option of
.BR mkntfs (8)
during creation of the file system.
.PP
.SH AUTHOR
.B ntfslabel
was written by Matthew J. Fanto (fanto1mj@cmich.edu). This man page was written
by Anton Altaparmakov (aia21@cantab.net).
.SH AVAILABILITY
.B ntfslabel
is part of the linux-ntfs package and is available from
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR mkntfs (8),
.BR ntfsprogs (8)