[SOLVED] How to rename a hard drive volume

[EnthusOcn]

This may just be a co-incident, but since around the time I installed 9.04 all my volume names have changed.

In Ubuntu 8.10 my Sansa Clip audio player was listed as and mounted as SANSA CLIP but now is listed Volume and is mounted as disk-1 or disk-2 or disk depending on what else I have mounted on. I'm hoping that if I give the volume a name it will help this, but I'm not sure how. I'm going to install something like GPartd but is there any way in Kubuntu to just do this?

Same for my hard drive with all my files. It used to be called Files and mount in /media/Files but now it uses one of the above names as well.

Is there an easy & simple "for humans" way of naming a drive volume?

[EnthusOcn]

Re: How to rename a hard drive volume

Nope.

GPartd does not include a renaming function. I'll continue to blindly grope around until someone posts an solution.

[dibl]

Re: How to rename a hard drive volume

Is there an easy & simple "for humans" way of naming a drive volume?

YES -- I call it "Google".

http://wikis.sun.com/display/BigAdmi...x+File+Systems

[EnthusOcn]

Re: How to rename a hard drive volume

Is there an easy & simple "for humans" way of naming a drive volume?

YES -- I call it "Google".

http://wikis.sun.com/display/BigAdmi...x+File+Systems

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You're a great poster and I see you giving lots of advice, but I am forced to say you are wrong. You gave me information about how to label a drive. But you failed at giving me a 'for humans' solution to the problem, which is what you quoted and said yes to. I mean, I can't even say 'nice try' because, well, you didn't.

Anyway, thanks for the info. Go go Konsole power!

[dibl]

Re: How to rename a hard drive volume

I mean, I can't even say 'nice try' because, well, you didn't.

Anyway, thanks for the info.

OK, no excuses -- I apologize for being flip.

But honestly, there is so much information available through a simple google search that I was taken aback by your original question. And I think you're asking quite a lot to expect any other human being clairvoyantly to envision what YOU consider "for humans" -- apparently the wiki isn't it. { hmmm, I wonder which species the wiki was written for ....}

I'll leap to an assumption -- possibly your view of "for humans" means "a GUI tool that hardly makes me touch the keyboard". If that is the case, then may I recommend Parted Magic, a downloadable ISO with which you make a bootable Live CD that will be for the exclusive purpose of working with your hard drives and partitions. The home page, with links to the download site is available here:

http://partedmagic.com/

and the reason I think this might come close to your notion of "for humans" is this page from the documentation:

http://wiki.partedmagic.com/index.php/Using_GParted

Scrolling down to #12 and #13, it shows the entry box for partition labels. While it doesn't explicitly describe the use of the labelling feature, it actually does work just like it appears. I used this product to partition my most recent hard drive, and to label the partitions -- here's what my hard drives look like:

root@ouranos:/home/dibl# blkid
/dev/sda1: LABEL="KUBUNTU" UUID="2a5c02ca-bf06-4b1c-9f2c-ba0454bbc83b" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="MUSIC" UUID="1e908a65-7ddb-4a1f-9913-d5a82ddb3137" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda3: LABEL="DOCS&PIX" UUID="bef7fc54-d120-4869-920c-edc64a214bae" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda4: LABEL="VIDEOS" UUID="932854dc-d16b-4612-9bd7-37345d1def09" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="DOCSBAK" UUID="92c0453f-2a35-40d5-8013-b8870ed66127" TYPE="xfs"
/dev/sdb2: LABEL="MUSICBAK" UUID="f4e36b39-af7d-475c-8990-b2093f558295" TYPE="xfs"
/dev/sdb3: LABEL="VIDEO_BAK" UUID="eba33247-0dbb-482c-9351-81505a953864" TYPE="xfs"
/dev/sdc1: UUID="012d0429-2262-4aa0-bc98-674c2e8e2d8c" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdc2: TYPE="swap" UUID="21c86c34-f1b9-4404-851e-36ce8fce4f5c"
/dev/sdc3: LABEL="123G_WORK" UUID="e4a45430-1c4a-4432-91db-265cfe7dd645" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"

I hope this answers the question in the manner you were seeking.

[EnthusOcn]

Re: How to rename a hard drive volume

But honestly, there is so much information available through a simple google search that I was taken aback by your original question. And I think you're asking quite a lot to expect any other human being clairvoyantly to envision what YOU consider "for humans" -- apparently the wiki isn't it. { hmmm, I wonder which species the wiki was written for ....}

No, it's for people like you and I with computer aptitudes. After 7 or 8 years of Linux I was hoping for some automated tools. It's not really something challenging that I want to do--I used the command you sent me. One command. No one added this to GPartd or Dolphin?

I'll leap to an assumption -- possibly your view of "for humans" means "a GUI tool that hardly makes me touch the keyboard".

Right. It's a simple function, and I'm not going to memorize commands like e2label because my memory is not that good and if you only use it once ever 3 or 4 years it doesn't really stick in there, you know? So I was hoping for a way to do it that didn't require memorizing or bookmarking. Given your responses and my own exploration, it seems there isn't one, so I've book marked the page on the wiki you gave me earlier as the best resource so far. And the e2label worked perfectly, by the way, so thank you.

http://wiki.partedmagic.com/index.php/Using_GParted

Scrolling down to #12 and #13, it shows the entry box for partition labels. While it doesn't explicitly describe the use of the labelling feature, it actually does work just like it appears. I used this product to partition my most recent hard drive, and to label the partitions -- here's what my hard drives look like:

Erhrm, yes, well, I suppose I didn't make it clear that I wanted to keep my 300 gigs of data. I suppose I can understand your confusion now that I think about it if you thought I was creating a partition. I guess I was not clear on this point.

Ubuntu slogan is "Linux for humans" by which they mean you don't have to understand a lot about computers to use it. And it's true of Ubuntu, largely. But I wanted to learn if there was a "for humans" approach to this problem. And it appears that there isn't. GParted doesn't have this functionality. I mentioned this in my second post, and I pointed out I was going to try it in my very first post. So why you mentioned it now, I don't know. Unless you were floored at how stupid I was for asking such a simple question.

You didn't answer my question--the answer is there is no such solution. Thanks for your answer, because it's what the next step would have been. Do it via konsole. Which is fine as far as solution go, but it requires to you memorize or look up the command every time you do it, and be honest, when was the last time you named an active partition. (I think it was Kubuntu that some how reset the label of the drive but I'm not sure.) The advantage of the gui is that I don't have to remember it for such a simple operation. (e2label? Seriously?)

The link you gave did not, however, work for my vfat partition. It couldn't rename it. I was able to rename it in Windows.

Anyway, thanks.