How to change drive's name? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
how can i give other drives and partitions short, meaningful names (in nautilus)?
I've got two Windows drives next to the Ubuntu drive, they are called XXXGB Filesystem
, where XXX is a size (80 and 329). How can I change their names to Windows
and Data
. I don't care, they are called strangely in /media
folder, although it would be nice to know where can I change it too and how may I disable to show a system drive
, that shouldn't be visible at all.
How it is now:
How it should look like:
Solution 1:
Command Line:
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To change the labels of drives use one of these commands:
sudo e2label /dev/sdc6 Data
OR
sudo sudo tune2fs -L Data /dev/sdc6
Replace
/dev/sdc6
with the specific drive you want to label andData
with the desired label.Use
sudo fdisk -l
to find drive names.Source
GUI:
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If you prefer GUI option than you can use
Gparted
.To install Gparted hit Alt+Ctrl+T to open terminal and run following command:
sudo apt-get install gparted
Once installed hit Alt+F2, type
gparted
and hit Enter or search forgparted
in Unity Dash and run it from there.Make sure the drive you want to label is unmounted, if it's mounted you can unmount it in Gparted, right click on the drive and select unmount.
To label a drive right click on the drive you want to label and select
Label
, enter the desired label.Click on the apply button in toolbar. That's it!
How to hide "SYSTEM" partition in Nautilus:
Create a file:
99-hide-some-disks.rules
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Insert the following line to the file:
KERNEL=="device name", ENV{UDISKS_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1",
Where device name is
sdaX
orhdX
Copy the file to
/etc/udev/rules.d
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Reboot computer, now the drive from a file is invisible (you can still mount it by hand only).
Source: Thanks to Benjamin