http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/7807/ 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.

[146 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #7807


]]> en-us Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:00:43 +0000 Sat, 17 May 2008 15:00:52 +0000 QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7807/ Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:31:52 +0000 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:53:35 +0000
@steve196: I agree. So +0]]> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:50:22 +0000
labelling partitions in Ubuntu is only possible the "easy way" via mtools, crazy!?!]]> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:43:46 +0000 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


]]> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:52:23 +0000 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:39:02 +0000 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:46:04 +0000 http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5494/

You should be encouraged to do it during the installation.]]> Fri, 16 May 2008 09:29:12 +0000 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.]]> Sat, 17 May 2008 15:00:52 +0000