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How do I rename an external drive? - m654321 - 03-30-2019
I have two identical external LaCie drives.
When they are both plugged in (at the same time), only one "LaCie" is listed. I guess I need to rename them "LaCie1" and "LaCie2" to avoid this, but would appreciate if someone could advise on how to do it. I went to Menu Disks but couldn't find anything there to help.I'm unsure of the command line for this too.
All help much appreciated, as ever
Mike
Re: How do I rename an external drive? - DeepThought - 03-30-2019
Go to menu - Disks
Highlight the drive you want to change, then click on the cog wheel underneath the drive on the right.
Click on "Edit Filesystem" and rename label.
Hope this helps
A little reading if you are interested
Code:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RenameUSBDriveRe: How do I rename an external drive? - m654321 - 03-30-2019
[member=7644]DeepThought[/member]
When I do this I get the following notification message:
Code:
Error setting label
Cannot change label on mounted device of type filesystem:ntfs.
(udisks-error-quark, 11)As I'm dual-booted, I'll try in Win8.1 & post back the result ...
Re: How do I rename an external drive? - DeepThought - 03-30-2019
Sorry, forgot to mention the drive has to be unmounted before any changes can be made.
Go to Disks, highlight the drive and just to the left of the cogs is a black square, click on that to unmount the drive.
Then carry on with the cogs to rename as mentioned before.
Then click on the play button that replaced the black square to remount, or just unplug/replug your external hdd.
Re: How do I rename an external drive? - m654321 - 03-30-2019
(03-30-2019, 01:01 PM)DeepThought link Wrote: the drive has to be unmounted before any changes can be made.
Many thanks DeepThought.
Problem now solved, with the drives now showing in the Thunar file manager as LaCie1 and LaCie2 8)
Re: How do I rename an external drive? - DeepThought - 03-30-2019
glad to help
Re: How do I rename an external drive? - minesheep - 04-20-2019
Just a note
It's possible to do it with Gparted also if you prefer. Select the correct drive from the device dropdown in right upper corner. It must be unmounted before you can rename it. Right click the partition and unmount it. When unmounted Right click the partition again and select "Label file system"