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7 years ago When i load the ISO, Rufus automatically suggest me the label "Linux Mint 18.2 Cinnamon 64-bit", but when it ends the formatting process, always the USB has the label "LINUX MINT" (whether I change the default label or not).
Yes, that's a LIMITATION of the FAT32 file system.
An ISO file system can use a label up to 64 characters (If I recall correctly), but your ISO needs to be converted to FAT32 to be usable from USB, and FAT32 limits labels to 11 uppercase characters only. So, no matter what you do, the label needs to be truncated to 11 uppercase characters hence Linux Mint 18.2 Cinnamon 64-bit → LINUX MINT.
I disable "Create extended label" option, and i take all others unchanged.
And that is also why you don't see the original label when you plug back the drive. The only way you can get a FAT32 label that will display more than 11 characters as well as lowercase in Windows is if the drive contains an autorun.inf with the original label. This is what the "Create extended label" option does. Of course, if you uncheck this, then the only label Windows will ever see is the FAT32 one, which means LINUX MINT.
So, once more, I'm afraid this is a pure file system limitation. The file system used for ISOs is different from the file systems one would typically use for USB, and each has different capabilities and limitations, which can manifest themselves during the conversion. This actually creates all kind of other problems, that Rufus tries to address, if, for instance, the init systems attempts to mount the installation partition according to its label.
Note that since your image is Syslinux/Isolinux based, you might be able to try using NTFS instead of FAT32 when creating the drive. But NTFS support is highly experimental at this stage, and there's very little guarantee it will work, as this requires the Linux kernel to have the ntfs driver available by default, and possibly the init scripts to be NTFS aware.
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Logbutton in Rufus and copy/pasted the log into the line that says<FULL LOG>below.Rufus version: x.y.z- I have NOT removed any part of it.Additionally (if applicable):
#button (at the bottom of the Rufus interface), to compute the MD5, SHA1 and SHA256 checksums, which are therefore present in the log I copied. I confirmed, by performing an internet search, that these values match the ones from the official image.Issue description
Hi. I see in Rufus 2.15.1117 (Portable) a label issue on Linux Mint 18.2 ISO. When i load the ISO, Rufus automatically suggest me the label "Linux Mint 18.2 Cinnamon 64-bit", but when it ends the formatting process, always the USB has the label "LINUX MINT" (whether I change the default label or not). I disable "Create extended label" option, and i take all others unchanged.
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