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Please consider adding a separate tool or extending the label tool to change the volume serial number of an exFAT file system (offset 0x64/100 in main boot sector).
For FAT under Linux one can use mlabel -N 12345678 -i /dev/sdb1.
I hope this is easy to implement as mkfs.exfat should already have all necessary components for it.
My use case:
Replaced an old USB stick with a new one, formatted it with exFAT and copied all data from the old one to it.
On the first usage I recognized that the old USB stick was also recognized by its volume serial number and not just the label.
Either I had to find and change all places on all devices/PCs where the old serial number was recognized, or I create a new 1:1 copy of the USB stick.
It was easier for me to reformat with mkfs.exfat -i 12345678 /dev/sdb1 and take again some time to copy all files.
But it would have been much easier to just change the serial number if possible.
Thanks
Maddes
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Please consider adding a separate tool or extending the label tool to change the volume serial number of an exFAT file system (offset 0x64/100 in main boot sector).
For FAT under Linux one can use
mlabel -N 12345678 -i /dev/sdb1
.I hope this is easy to implement as mkfs.exfat should already have all necessary components for it.
My use case:
Replaced an old USB stick with a new one, formatted it with exFAT and copied all data from the old one to it.
On the first usage I recognized that the old USB stick was also recognized by its volume serial number and not just the label.
Either I had to find and change all places on all devices/PCs where the old serial number was recognized, or I create a new 1:1 copy of the USB stick.
It was easier for me to reformat with
mkfs.exfat -i 12345678 /dev/sdb1
and take again some time to copy all files.But it would have been much easier to just change the serial number if possible.
Thanks
Maddes
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: