Re: Rename partition in Nautilus Tree

[Russell Gadd <russ.mail.lists@googlemail.com>]

Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> Russell Gadd wrote:
> > I'd like to be able to customise the contents of the left pane of 
> > Nautilus file manager either in "Tree" or "Places" view. I have 2 
> > hard drives and each has 4 primary partitions. Each of the data 
> > partitions shows up as a root in this tree view even though it is 
> > mounted under a directory name in the "File System". I'd like to do 
> > either of 2 things if possible:
> >
> > 1. Remove a partition from this view
> >
> > 2. If not 1 then can I rename a partition ? - for example due to the 
> > way the system was initially set up one partition shows as "Linux". 
> > This is mounted under directory "docs". It shows as "Linux" in the 
> > tree but I want it to be called "docs".
> >     If I right click this item and choose "Properties" the panel 
> > title is "docs Properties" and the "Basic" tab shows Name: docs, Type 
> > folder, Location: /, Volume: Linux. So the item in the tree/ places 
> > seems to be the Volume name. But I can't find where this is stored - 
> > it's not in /etc/fstab. Can I rename this somewhere?
>
> tune2fs -L "new volume label" /path/to/partition
>
> > (I realise this may be a Gnome question rather than Debian - If 
> > there's a better list to post this on please let me know)
> >
> > Russell
>     
Hi Raj

Thanks for this. It didn't seem to work until I shut down X and 
restarted. Also it complained about the last bit being a path so I used 
a device name (I guess this is what you meant rather than the filesystem 
mount point which I used at first)

tune2fs -L docs /dev/hdb3


Regards
Russell