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I want to change the label and default mounting location for an external hard drive.

To change the label I have tried both solutions proposed in https://askubuntu.com/a/153183/800252 but they do not work for exfat drives. I already ran sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils before. gparted explicitly does not support exfat and e2label apparently doesn't either. Since it gives an error 

Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/...
/dev/... contains a exfat file system labelled BadDefaultLabel

Similarly I changed the default Mount Point using gparted but it seems it is not being used and it still gets mounted to the default /media/user/BadDefaultLabel.

System: Ubuntu 18.04

Kvothe
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I managed to change the drive label in Windows instead. This solved the labeling issue and also my biggest problem with the default mounting point since my annoyance was a space in the file path due to the space in the label.

An ubuntu native solution would have been nicer but the problem is solved.

Kvothe
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