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Idea #260: Auto-naming mountable drives

Written by CallousCrab the 28 Feb 08 at 23:59. Category: System. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Can all USB/other media which are mounted get a permanent name by default? If a user plugs in a USB hard-drive, he should not have to figure out what the name of the hard-drive is (disk, disk-1 etc). Currently depending on how many drives are connected and the connection order, a USB drive can get different names everyday. If the name is set for a drive (using the /dev/by_uuid/ entry in fstab), it would be much easier for a user to use multiple external drives.

Also, changing names for drives etc should be allowed through a simple rename function (by pressing F2?).
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #260
Written by CallousCrab the 28 Feb 08 at 23:59.
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Solution #2: Allow easy renaming of hard drives
Written by 777zero777 the 24 Jan 09 at 00:40.
The biggest reason the whole 'disk' 'disk-1' problem arises is because you cannot right click the drive title under '/media' and choose 'rename' as in Windows.

My suggestion is to allow renaming by 'right click' -> 'rename'.

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unit3 wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 02:57
On my system, GNOME automounts by filesystem label. This, the name you give the partition is what you get. That seems like what you're asking for, so I'm not sure what behaviour you're seeing that's different from this?

CallousCrab wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 19:05
I have multiple external hard-drives and USB drives. Depending on the order of connection, Ubuntu gives out names like - disk, disk-1 etc. If the order is changed, drive A called disk before could be called disk-2 now. If you have songs on this drive for example, rhythmbox won't find the songs since it stores the drive name in its library.
I had to fix this issue by creating an alias in /etc/fstab based on the uuid of the drive.
I am proposing that this happen automagically - the user could specify a name the first time the drive is connected and this could get stored.

wleoncio wrote on the 11 Nov 08 at 21:42
I feel so ashamed when I have to tell someone that Ubuntu doesn't have this feature. It's something WinXP does quite easily and so should Gnome.


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