.TH "dosfslabel" "8" "13 August 2008"

.SH "NAME"
dosfslabel \- set or get a MS-DOS filesystem label

.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.PP
.B dosfslabel
.IR device \ [ label ]


.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
This manual page documents briefly the
.B dosfslabel
command.
.PP
.B dosfslabel
set or gets  a MS-DOS filesystem label from a given
.IR device .
If
.I label
is omitted, then the label name of the specified
.I device
is written on the standard output.

.I label
can't be longer than 11 characters.

.SH "OPTIONS"
.TP
.BR \-h , \-\-help
Displays a help message.
.TP
.BR \-V , \-\-version
Shows version.

.SH "SEE ALSO"

.BR mkfs.msdos (8),
.BR mkdosfs (8)


.SH "AUTHORS"
.PP
.B dosfslabel
is Copyright 2007 Red Hat, Inc.
.PP
Some portions are Copyright 1998 Roman Hodek.
.PP
Some portions are Copyright 1993 Werner Almesberger.

This manual page was written by François Wendling <frwendling@free.fr> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).