On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Alan Warren <bluemoonshine@gmail.com> wrote:
> My thumbdrive has been mounting fine, but recently it started mounting
> with strange characters in it's name.

I believe most auto-mounters use the file system label when naming
mount points. You can view or modify this with the tools appropriate
for the specific file system.

For FAT, use dosfslabel from the sys-fs/dosfstools package.

For ext{2,3,4}, use "tune2fs -L" from the sys-fs/e2fsprogs package.

I'm guessing that something messed up the label.