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Description
Right now, all other hard drive partitions on the system will appear as 80 GB Media, 19.5 GB Media, etc. Ubuntu could name the drives' desktop links as follows:
1. If the partition is formatted with NTFS, name it "Windows/NTFS Partition [size in GB]"
2. If the partition has DOS on it, name it "DOS Partition [size in GB]"
4. If the partition does not have DOS but is FAT-formatted, name it "FAT32 Partition [size in GB]"
5. If the partition is formatted with ext3, reiserfs, etc. and is either mounted under /media or is not in the fstab, name it "Linux-Native [name os fs-type] Partition (size in GB)"
These names could probably be improved, but they're better and more informative than what GNOME (and KDE) do now.
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steve196 wrote on the 29 Apr 08 at 12:31
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Good idea principally, but the names are bad. It should be obvious what a name means and what criteria were used. It is not obvious, that "Windows Data Partition [size in GB]" means NTFS but "Generic Data Partition [size in GB]" means FAT. Better straightforwardly say FAT and NTFS. Those terms can at least be looked up on wikipedia.
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a3_nm wrote on the 29 Apr 08 at 14:53
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For Windows partitions, it might be a good idea to label them with the letters used by Windows (C:, D:) in a way which is of course consistent with the Windows installation.
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loonyphoenix wrote on the 29 Apr 08 at 17:50
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@a3_nm: but suppose you have 2 different windows installations (i.e. XP and Vista), and they have assigned different drive names for same partitions?
@steve196: I agree. So +0
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 droetker (Moderator) wrote on the 29 Apr 08 at 18:43
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Maybe that's a separate idea, but best would be to allow users to RENAME their partitions. "USB-Stick" etc...
labelling partitions in Ubuntu is only possible the "easy way" via mtools, crazy!?!
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julius87 wrote on the 29 Apr 08 at 18:52
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I think the way ubuntu labels the partitions is better now than it was before.
Before, it assigned the name of the mountpoint, so if the mountpoint was /media/windows, the name would be windows.
That made sense when you had to manually alter fstab to get that partition to automount. Then ubuntu since I don't remember what version, added them automatically right? SO the names were sdx, if IIRC.
Now nautilus will look for the volume name that the partition has. A volume name as specified by the file system the partition is using. By default (at least on Vista), windows won't put a name to the volumes.
ON windows (I'm talking vista, although the same can be done on XP):
GO to windows explorer > Computer. See that the drive that says "local disk"? Well, nautilus does the same, except that instead of calling it local disk, it calls it "XXX GB volume". Right click on that volume, and set a name. GO back to ubuntu and you'll see that the unit is no longer called "xxxGB volume".
As for drive letters, the drive letters are assigned at the installation. If you 'called' the vista installer from within another windows installation, the new vista install will adopt the letter assignation that other installation had. If you boot the installer on your own, windows will assign C: to the partition windows is being installed on. SO the drive letter assignment on windows is totally arbitrary on the same partitions can vary between two windows installations (as of VISTAl, that is). It would be pointless to try to reproduce that on linux.
So ubuntu tries to label partitions the best it can, by looking at the name that partition has. To detect a windows installation in those partition, they'd have to be mounted and explored, and ubuntu doesn't automount them by default (as of 8.04).
Solution? LABEL YOUR VOLUMES:
Here you'll find instructions to do it depending on the file system we're dealing with:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RenameUSBDrive
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maybeway36 wrote on the 29 Apr 08 at 20:39
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Ubuntu looks for installations of other OSes when it is installing the bootloader. I agree, the names I suggested aren't that great.
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maybeway36 wrote on the 29 Apr 08 at 20:46
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I changed the partition names in the idea's description. What do you think?
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tamalet wrote on the 16 May 08 at 09:29
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I agree with julius87, the solution is to label your partitions, however, as noted by other suggestions, Ubuntu should make it simpler to rename partitions:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5494/
You should be encouraged to do it during the installation.
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vprasaj wrote on the 17 May 08 at 15:00
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Label partitions/disks in their own system and you get your names.
I have everything at install. Like:
WIN_XP
WIN_D
WIN_E
OSX
PClinuxOS
Home
How much is used/free/total use "df" or System monitor.
So, its done. But i won't vote. So +-0.
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