Only for information, it just came out that the "vol" command of recent grub4dos behaves like the "label" command of XP (and later) and unlike the "label" command of DOS/Win9x.
Namely:
- DOS/Win9x label command BOTH creates a "special entry" in the filesystem (in root directory for FAT12/16) with attribute 0x28 AND changes the label in the bootsector (11 character field, [SPACE] aka 0x20 padded at offset 0x2B)
- NT based systems (surely 2K/XP, probably also NT 3.x/4) ONLY creates a "special entry" in the filesystem (in root directory for FAT12/16) BUT with attribute 0x08 instead
Seemingly grub4dos vol --write command behaves like #2 above.
More info here:
https://msfn.org/boa...e-on-usb-drive/
and (tangentially) here:
https://msfn.org/boa...at-b-and-label/
This is NOT a "bug", only a characteristic, though it would be nice if in a next release of grub4dos a "modifier" to the vol command could be added to emulate (optionally) the DOS/Win9x behaviour, i.e. besides the:
--write
there could be an additional
--bs_also
and/or a
attr_type=0x08 | 0x28
Wonko