.TH doslabel "" "" Command
.PC "Label an \*(MD floppy disk"
\fBdoslabel [\-v] \fIdevice\fB: \fIlabel\fR
.PP
.HS
.SH Option
.IC \fBv\fR
Verbose.
Describe each action as it is executed.
.HE
.II "MS-DOS^label a floppy disk"
.B doslabel
puts
.I label
onto an \*(MD floppy disk.
.I device
names the floppy-disk drive that holds the disk to be labelled,
such as
.BR /dev/fha0 .
See the Lexicon entry
.B "floppy disks"
for a table of the \*(CO floppy-disk devices.
You can also build a file of aliases so that
you can access the drives as
.BR a ,
.BR b ,
etc.
For details, see the Lexicon entry for
.BR doscp ,
which explains how to set up defaults for the \fBdos\fR family of commands.
.PP
The option \fB\-v\fR,
tells
.B doslabel
to provide additional information about each action it performs.
.SH Example
The following command labels an \*(MD floppy disk with the string
.BR mydisk .
It assumes that you have defined
.B a
as a default for a device that holds an \*(MD file system:
.DM
	doslabel a: mydisk
.DE
.SH Files
\fB/etc/default/msdos\fR \(em Setup file
.SH "See Also"
.Xr "commands," commands, 
.Xr "dos" dos
