How can I change the name of a partition?
I want to change the name of my partition so that I can change the directory from the terminal using the changed name. The current path to the partition is /mnt/8C5442D35442C026
which is long and I cannot remember it. I tried to change the path using GParted, also tried renaming the partition (or rather its bookmark) but to no avail.
How can I achieve it? I am running Ubuntu 18.10 along with Windows 10. I want to be able to use that drive/partition on Windows as well.
Edit:
The output of cat /etc/fstab
is
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=e8118874-6565-45c7-bab4-67ee65476e60 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/swapfile none swap sw 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/8C5442D35442C026 /mnt/8C5442D35442C026 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/3C5234155233D1FE /mnt/3C5234155233D1FE auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/7A7E1A557E1A0B11 /mnt/7A7E1A557E1A0B11 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
You don't need to change the label, only the mountpoint. First, run sudo nano /etc/fstab
and change this line:
/dev/disk/by-uuid/8C5442D35442C026 /mnt/8C5442D35442C026 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
To this:
/dev/disk/by-uuid/8C5442D35442C026 /mnt/myDisk auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
Of course, you can change myDisk
to whatever name you want. Then, create the directory:
sudo mkdir /mnt/myDisk
Next, either reboot or just unmount the partition and mount it again:
sudo umount /mnt/8C5442D35442C026
sudo mount /mnt/myDisk
Alternatively, you could always simply create a symlink pointing to the existing mountpoint:
ln -s /mnt/8C5442D35442C026 $HOME/myDisk
Now, you have the directory $HOME/myDisk
and you can use that instead of /mnt/8C5442D35442C026
.