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#5494: Easy Extern Drive Renaming
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Written by NoopyKs the 23 Mar 08 at 14:32.
Category: Accessibility.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
It would be useful if the drive (other HDD or USB Key,...) could be renamed by a simple right click + rename in nautilus (like a folder)
Actually you have to boot under Windows or use the mtool wich is really not user friendly.
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angrykeyboarder wrote on the 23 Mar 08 at 14:43
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Indeed.
I was just thinking the same thing recently. I need to label several drives (3 ext3, 2 NTFS). There is no simple way to do so in Linux (especially if you're talking about more than one filesystem).
Right clicking on a drive icon in GNOME and KDE and having a "rename" option would be awesome.
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Eldmannen wrote on the 23 Mar 08 at 15:49
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I agree.
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oliver@schinagl.nl wrote on the 23 Mar 08 at 16:27
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Have you tried using the rightclick -> rename command when you hit 'my computer' under 'places'?
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Rabbid wrote on the 23 Mar 08 at 20:34
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oliver: Doesn't work for me.
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NoopyKs wrote on the 23 Mar 08 at 20:55
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olivier: It's the first thing I try, doesn't work for me too ^^
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x1sc0 wrote on the 24 Mar 08 at 02:32
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I agree.
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Psycho_zs wrote on the 24 Mar 08 at 06:16
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As far as I know, gparted in Hardy will be able to manage volume labels.
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jonathanmotes wrote on the 24 Mar 08 at 23:25
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+1. Eliminate one more reason for me to boot Windows!
Psycho_zs: I don't know if this feature is supposed to be in Hardy or not but it doesn't seem to be working in Hardy Beta 1 (I just tested it).
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wleoncio wrote on the 10 Apr 08 at 12:25
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Definitely a +1. I was quite embarrassed a couple of times when showing Ubuntu to my family and they asked how they could rename their thumb drives and I told them there was no easy way to do it... :-/
And if you show them an algorithm like the one on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RenameUSBDrive they are just going to sigh and say how Windows is so much more simple than Linux (and, on this case, they won't be wrong).
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