On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 02:27:22PM -0700, Donald D Henson wrote: > 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?
How did you look at the properties of the device? Did you reboot? Try running the volume-id program to view it. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
