Renaming drive names

[opethfan89]

Hey guys, just a quick question.

Is there a way to rename the drive names in F12? By drive names I mean:

FILESYSTEM is the default name for the F12 file system

290GB FILESYSTEM is the name for my Windows 7 Partition

Am I able to rename these to make it easy for me to remember which is which?

The reason it might be confusing is I might use the same size partition (as I have in the past) so I wouldn't remember which partition is which.

Thanks for any response,
OpethFan89

[dd_wizard]

I take it you mean the entry in the Fedora file browser for the linux file system. I never thought about that being system generated, but I don't think you can change it. You could rename your Windows partition so it shows up as something else in whichever file browser you're using in Fedora.

dd_wizard

[sonoran]

Gparted allows you to change the Labels for partitions.

[dd_wizard]

Correct, sonoran, so does the Palimpsest Disk Utility, and some terminal commands. But the name for the linux root file system in Nautilus, and I'm guessing in Dolphin, is "File System" and I don't know if that can be changed. If it can, it'd be in gconf or nautilus, not the partition label.

dd_wizard

[opethfan89]

Originally Posted by dd_wizard

I take it you mean the entry in the Fedora file browser for the linux file system. I never thought about that being system generated, but I don't think you can change it. You could rename your Windows partition so it shows up as something else in whichever file browser you're using in Fedora.

dd_wizard

Aye that it what I was referring to.

Originally Posted by sonoran

Gparted allows you to change the Labels for partitions.

Awesome, I have the latest Gparted disc burned and will give this a shot. Do I need to be concerned about losing any data or corrupting my partitions in any way if I do this?

[dd_wizard]

You can run gparted or Palimpsest inside Fedora. Palimpsest comes installed by default from the install DVD, also from the liveCD I believe. It's in System Tools > Disk Utilities. As long as you just change a file system name, nothing bad should happen. Just pay attention and don't click things like delete! sudo yum install gparted will install gparted if you prefer that.

dd_wizard

[sonoran]

You're probably correct that "Filesystem" cannot be changed without hacking the source code. But I have 4 linux systems installed, and in pcmanfm they show up as "52.4GB volume", "209.7MB volume" etc, and it's a challenge to remember what's what. I use gparted to label them as "ArchBoot," "Fedora12Home," and so on. I don't use nautilus but I suspect it will use labels also if it finds them.

LVM might pose a problem for gparted. I don't use LVM. Palimpsest might work, haven't tried it. At the lowest level, the e2label command will do the job, it's part of the e2fsprogs package. Look at "info e2label" for instructions.

[opethfan89]

Thanks very much for the responses everyone. I will look into some of these solutions this weekend when I have a bit more free time, and hopefully it will make my full-time shift over to Fedora all the more quicker!