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I placed

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mke2fs -c /dev/sbd1 -L externalbackup1.5 -t ext4

in terminal.
but the

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Filesystem label=externalbackup1.

came out that way, with the 5 missing.
is it a case of there only being so many characters allowed?

man mke2fs

-L new-volume-label
Set the volume label for the filesystem to new-volume-label. The maximum length of the volume label is 16 bytes.

so you choose a toooooooooo long name