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I have a 1tb wd Passport named My Passport. I want to rename it to get rid of the space. I tried using the last opetion offered here. However, I encounter the following error:

Error setting label: Command-line `ntfslabel "/dev/sdb1" "MyPassport"' exited with non-zero exit status 1: Volume is scheduled for check. Please boot into Windows TWICE, or use the 'force' option. NOTE: If you had not scheduled check and last time accessed this volume using ntfsmount and shutdown system properly, then init scripts in your distribution are broken. Please report to your distribution developers (NOT to us!) that init scripts kill ntfsmount or mount.ntfs-fuse during shutdown instead of proper umount. (udisks-error-quark, 0)

I have no idea what to do...

I tried the following: ntfslabel --force "/dev/sdb1" "MyPassport" but apparently, I mistook on the usage of ntfslabel:

Usage: ntfslabel [options] device [label]
    -n, --no-action    Do not write to disk
    -f, --force        Use less caution
        --new-serial   Set a new serial number
        --new-half-serial Set a partial new serial number
    -q, --quiet        Less output
    -v, --verbose      More output
    -V, --version      Display version information
    -h, --help         Display this help

Answer 1

Is the drive formatted in ntfs mode? Try this

sudo mkntfs -f /dev/sdb1 && sudo ntfslabel /dev/sdb1 MyPassport

Warning: mkntfs -f performs a fast format leading to data loss!!!