Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 06:09:51AM -0700, Donald D Henson wrote:
>> I have four partitions on three external disk drives. They show up in my
>> Gnome Places Panel as <capacity> Volume. For example:
>>
>> 129 GB Volume
>>
>> I would like to have them show up with a more meaningful name, such as:
>>
>> Public
>>
>> This seems like a problem with a simple solution but the articles I've
>> found so far go into theoretical kernel jargon, about 99% of which I
>> don't understand. Can anyone point me to an easily understandable
>> procedure for naming a volume? I'd appreciate any assistance.
>
> You can set the volume id when you create the volume initially with the
> mke2fs program using the -L option (this is for ext2/3 filesystems,
> other file systems also have their options.)
>
> If the filesystem is already created, and you don't want to destroy it
> and all of the data on it, just use the tune2fs program, again with the
> -L option.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> greg k-h
>
It seemed to be just what I needed but I can't get it to change the
volume name. As root, I used the command:
tune2fs -L Float /dev/sdc1
It appeared to work but when I looked at it's properties, the Volume
name hadn't changed. Do you see anything wrong with the command?
Don Henson
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