How can I give other drives and partitions short, meaningful names in nautilus?
In nautilus and Unity the external drive has a nice short descriptive name "mcat", but all partitions on the 4 internal drives are displayed as a size (834 GB filesystem) or a huge 32-character string form of a GUID:
I'm guessing the external drive is nice, short, sweet and readable because that drive may have no partitions (well, just one I guess) and that name may be the drive label, whereas partitions usually don't have names. That may explain my problem, but doesn't solve it.
Is there some way to give reasonable names to these partitions in nautilus and Unity?
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In nautilus and Unity the external drive has a nice short descriptive name "mcat", but all partitions on the 4 internal drives are displayed as a size (834 GB filesystem) or a huge 32-character string form of a GUID:
I'm guessing the external drive is nice, short, sweet and readable because that drive may have no partitions (well, just one I guess) and that name may be the drive label, whereas partitions usually don't have names. That may explain my problem, but doesn't solve it.
Is there some way to give reasonable names to these partitions in nautilus and Unity?
nautilus
edited Jun 9 '14 at 15:46
Braiam
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asked Jun 6 '12 at 15:11
honestannhonestann
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add a comment |
In nautilus and Unity the external drive has a nice short descriptive name "mcat", but all partitions on the 4 internal drives are displayed as a size (834 GB filesystem) or a huge 32-character string form of a GUID:
I'm guessing the external drive is nice, short, sweet and readable because that drive may have no partitions (well, just one I guess) and that name may be the drive label, whereas partitions usually don't have names. That may explain my problem, but doesn't solve it.
Is there some way to give reasonable names to these partitions in nautilus and Unity?
nautilus
edited Jun 9 '14 at 15:46
Braiam
52.1k20136222
asked Jun 6 '12 at 15:11
honestannhonestann
43841123
In nautilus and Unity the external drive has a nice short descriptive name "mcat", but all partitions on the 4 internal drives are displayed as a size (834 GB filesystem) or a huge 32-character string form of a GUID:
I'm guessing the external drive is nice, short, sweet and readable because that drive may have no partitions (well, just one I guess) and that name may be the drive label, whereas partitions usually don't have names. That may explain my problem, but doesn't solve it.
Is there some way to give reasonable names to these partitions in nautilus and Unity?
nautilus
nautilus
edited Jun 9 '14 at 15:46
Braiam
52.1k20136222
asked Jun 6 '12 at 15:11
honestannhonestann
43841123
edited Jun 9 '14 at 15:46
Braiam
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asked Jun 6 '12 at 15:11
honestannhonestann
43841123
edited Jun 9 '14 at 15:46
Braiam
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edited Jun 9 '14 at 15:46
Braiam
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edited Jun 9 '14 at 15:46
Braiam
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asked Jun 6 '12 at 15:11
honestannhonestann
43841123
asked Jun 6 '12 at 15:11
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Open disk-utility from your Unity dash and click at your Harddisk .then click at the partition where you want a label then click Edit File System Label and give your New Label .
answered Jun 6 '12 at 15:17
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Partition labelling is possible using the GParted tool. You just select the partition you want to change the label to, right click and choose the label option. However, you can't change the label for mounted partitions, so you are out of luck for your system partitions.
answered Jun 6 '12 at 15:39
PetarPetar
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We are able to change labels on mounted drives too - try it out ;)
– Takkat
Jun 6 '12 at 17:37
Worked great. As long as it persists through reboot, I'm happy! Thanks.
– honestann
Jun 7 '12 at 8:12
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I was redirected here from the "possibly duplicate" question How to change drive's name?. However the accepted answers, both here and there, did not work with me. The guys in the original question (where I came from), and possibly here too, are specifically asking about how to rename a mounted partition using a GUI? And no! I don't want to install additional software (e.g. Gparted) and backup my system.
When I used the accepted answer here I got this error: Cannot change label on mounted device of type filesystem:ntfs. (udisks-error-quark, 11). I found a turnaround here: https://askubuntu.com/a/1003648/402539 which simply says:
- Unmount the drive.
- Rename it (as above, in the accepted answer here).
- Re-mount it back.
answered May 1 '18 at 1:25
HazemHazem
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The simplest way for me was to set a label in GParted and then in Disks -> Mount Options just to set Identify as and to choose LABEL instead of UUID. And so mounted point has a readable name instead of long string of chars and numbers. That's it! Here some images and my problem explained. How to change mounted HDD UUID to human-readable?
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Open disk-utility from your Unity dash and click at your Harddisk .then click at the partition where you want a label then click Edit File System Label and give your New Label .
answered Jun 6 '12 at 15:17
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Open disk-utility from your Unity dash and click at your Harddisk .then click at the partition where you want a label then click Edit File System Label and give your New Label .
answered Jun 6 '12 at 15:17
rɑːdʒɑrɑːdʒɑ
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Open disk-utility from your Unity dash and click at your Harddisk .then click at the partition where you want a label then click Edit File System Label and give your New Label .
answered Jun 6 '12 at 15:17
rɑːdʒɑrɑːdʒɑ
58k85218302
Open disk-utility from your Unity dash and click at your Harddisk .then click at the partition where you want a label then click Edit File System Label and give your New Label .
answered Jun 6 '12 at 15:17
rɑːdʒɑrɑːdʒɑ
58k85218302
answered Jun 6 '12 at 15:17
rɑːdʒɑrɑːdʒɑ
58k85218302
answered Jun 6 '12 at 15:17
rɑːdʒɑrɑːdʒɑ
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Partition labelling is possible using the GParted tool. You just select the partition you want to change the label to, right click and choose the label option. However, you can't change the label for mounted partitions, so you are out of luck for your system partitions.
answered Jun 6 '12 at 15:39
PetarPetar
6914
We are able to change labels on mounted drives too - try it out ;)
– Takkat
Jun 6 '12 at 17:37
Worked great. As long as it persists through reboot, I'm happy! Thanks.
– honestann
Jun 7 '12 at 8:12
add a comment |
Partition labelling is possible using the GParted tool. You just select the partition you want to change the label to, right click and choose the label option. However, you can't change the label for mounted partitions, so you are out of luck for your system partitions.
answered Jun 6 '12 at 15:39
PetarPetar
6914
We are able to change labels on mounted drives too - try it out ;)
– Takkat
Jun 6 '12 at 17:37
Worked great. As long as it persists through reboot, I'm happy! Thanks.
– honestann
Jun 7 '12 at 8:12
add a comment |
Partition labelling is possible using the GParted tool. You just select the partition you want to change the label to, right click and choose the label option. However, you can't change the label for mounted partitions, so you are out of luck for your system partitions.
answered Jun 6 '12 at 15:39
PetarPetar
6914
Partition labelling is possible using the GParted tool. You just select the partition you want to change the label to, right click and choose the label option. However, you can't change the label for mounted partitions, so you are out of luck for your system partitions.
answered Jun 6 '12 at 15:39
PetarPetar
6914
answered Jun 6 '12 at 15:39
PetarPetar
6914
answered Jun 6 '12 at 15:39
PetarPetar
6914
answered Jun 6 '12 at 15:39
PetarPetar
6914
6914
We are able to change labels on mounted drives too - try it out ;)
– Takkat
Jun 6 '12 at 17:37
Worked great. As long as it persists through reboot, I'm happy! Thanks.
– honestann
Jun 7 '12 at 8:12
add a comment |
We are able to change labels on mounted drives too - try it out ;)
– Takkat
Jun 6 '12 at 17:37
Worked great. As long as it persists through reboot, I'm happy! Thanks.
– honestann
Jun 7 '12 at 8:12
We are able to change labels on mounted drives too - try it out ;)
– Takkat
Jun 6 '12 at 17:37
We are able to change labels on mounted drives too - try it out ;)
– Takkat
Jun 6 '12 at 17:37
Worked great. As long as it persists through reboot, I'm happy! Thanks.
– honestann
Jun 7 '12 at 8:12
Worked great. As long as it persists through reboot, I'm happy! Thanks.
– honestann
Jun 7 '12 at 8:12
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I was redirected here from the "possibly duplicate" question How to change drive's name?. However the accepted answers, both here and there, did not work with me. The guys in the original question (where I came from), and possibly here too, are specifically asking about how to rename a mounted partition using a GUI? And no! I don't want to install additional software (e.g. Gparted) and backup my system.
When I used the accepted answer here I got this error: Cannot change label on mounted device of type filesystem:ntfs. (udisks-error-quark, 11). I found a turnaround here: https://askubuntu.com/a/1003648/402539 which simply says:
- Unmount the drive.
- Rename it (as above, in the accepted answer here).
- Re-mount it back.
answered May 1 '18 at 1:25
HazemHazem
354
add a comment |
I was redirected here from the "possibly duplicate" question How to change drive's name?. However the accepted answers, both here and there, did not work with me. The guys in the original question (where I came from), and possibly here too, are specifically asking about how to rename a mounted partition using a GUI? And no! I don't want to install additional software (e.g. Gparted) and backup my system.
When I used the accepted answer here I got this error: Cannot change label on mounted device of type filesystem:ntfs. (udisks-error-quark, 11). I found a turnaround here: https://askubuntu.com/a/1003648/402539 which simply says:
- Unmount the drive.
- Rename it (as above, in the accepted answer here).
- Re-mount it back.
answered May 1 '18 at 1:25
HazemHazem
354
add a comment |
I was redirected here from the "possibly duplicate" question How to change drive's name?. However the accepted answers, both here and there, did not work with me. The guys in the original question (where I came from), and possibly here too, are specifically asking about how to rename a mounted partition using a GUI? And no! I don't want to install additional software (e.g. Gparted) and backup my system.
When I used the accepted answer here I got this error: Cannot change label on mounted device of type filesystem:ntfs. (udisks-error-quark, 11). I found a turnaround here: https://askubuntu.com/a/1003648/402539 which simply says:
- Unmount the drive.
- Rename it (as above, in the accepted answer here).
- Re-mount it back.
answered May 1 '18 at 1:25
HazemHazem
354
I was redirected here from the "possibly duplicate" question How to change drive's name?. However the accepted answers, both here and there, did not work with me. The guys in the original question (where I came from), and possibly here too, are specifically asking about how to rename a mounted partition using a GUI? And no! I don't want to install additional software (e.g. Gparted) and backup my system.
When I used the accepted answer here I got this error: Cannot change label on mounted device of type filesystem:ntfs. (udisks-error-quark, 11). I found a turnaround here: https://askubuntu.com/a/1003648/402539 which simply says:
- Unmount the drive.
- Rename it (as above, in the accepted answer here).
- Re-mount it back.
answered May 1 '18 at 1:25
HazemHazem
354
answered May 1 '18 at 1:25
HazemHazem
354
answered May 1 '18 at 1:25
HazemHazem
354
answered May 1 '18 at 1:25
HazemHazem
354
354
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add a comment |
The simplest way for me was to set a label in GParted and then in Disks -> Mount Options just to set Identify as and to choose LABEL instead of UUID. And so mounted point has a readable name instead of long string of chars and numbers. That's it! Here some images and my problem explained. How to change mounted HDD UUID to human-readable?
answered 9 hours ago
Ivan SidarukIvan Sidaruk
32
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The simplest way for me was to set a label in GParted and then in Disks -> Mount Options just to set Identify as and to choose LABEL instead of UUID. And so mounted point has a readable name instead of long string of chars and numbers. That's it! Here some images and my problem explained. How to change mounted HDD UUID to human-readable?
answered 9 hours ago
Ivan SidarukIvan Sidaruk
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The simplest way for me was to set a label in GParted and then in Disks -> Mount Options just to set Identify as and to choose LABEL instead of UUID. And so mounted point has a readable name instead of long string of chars and numbers. That's it! Here some images and my problem explained. How to change mounted HDD UUID to human-readable?
answered 9 hours ago
Ivan SidarukIvan Sidaruk
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The simplest way for me was to set a label in GParted and then in Disks -> Mount Options just to set Identify as and to choose LABEL instead of UUID. And so mounted point has a readable name instead of long string of chars and numbers. That's it! Here some images and my problem explained. How to change mounted HDD UUID to human-readable?
answered 9 hours ago
Ivan SidarukIvan Sidaruk
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answered 9 hours ago
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