This is probably dead now, but I was on vacation. On 4/5/07, Simon Geard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 22:46 -0600, Dennis J Perkins wrote: > > I'm not sure which program... gnome-mount, gnome-volume-manager, or > > nautilus... is responsible for putting labels under drive icons on the > > desktop, but does anyone know if it is possible to have better icon > > labels than "3.8 GB Removable Volume"? > > It's probably Nautilus responsible for the labels, and yes, it is > possible. Far as I can tell, the preferred label is actually the volume > ID if there is one (as reported by HAL) - otherwise it falls back to > creating a label based on other information.
I think it's actually gnome-vfs which handles this, but it queries HAL about partitions/volumes. Not that it makes this any easier. Maybe you can use a HAL fdi file to set the label accordingly so it's picked up by gnome-vfs. Not sure about that. > I've actually got two flash drives plugged in right now - one shows up > as "LFSDisk", the other as "1.9 GB Removable Volume". They're identical > hardware, but the first has been reformatted as ext2 and given a label. This would be the simplest way. You can use tune2fs to set a label for the volume if it's ext2/3. # /sbin/tune2fs -L MyLabel /dev/thepartition -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
