I have four partitions on three external disk drives. They show up in my Gnome Places Panel as <capacity> Volume. For example: 129 GB Volume I would like to have them show up with a more meaningful name, such as: Public This seems like a problem with a simple solution but the articles I've found so far go into theoretical kernel jargon, about 99% of which I don't understand. Can anyone point me to an easily understandable procedure for naming a volume? I'd appreciate any assistance. Don Henson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 06:09:51AM -0700, Donald D Henson wrote:
I have four partitions on three external disk drives. They show up in my Gnome Places Panel as <capacity> Volume. For example:
129 GB Volume
I would like to have them show up with a more meaningful name, such as:
Public
This seems like a problem with a simple solution but the articles I've found so far go into theoretical kernel jargon, about 99% of which I don't understand. Can anyone point me to an easily understandable procedure for naming a volume? I'd appreciate any assistance.
You can set the volume id when you create the volume initially with the mke2fs program using the -L option (this is for ext2/3 filesystems, other file systems also have their options.) If the filesystem is already created, and you don't want to destroy it and all of the data on it, just use the tune2fs program, again with the -L option. Hope this helps, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Nov 30, 2007 12:34 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
You can set the volume id when you create the volume initially with the mke2fs program using the -L option (this is for ext2/3 filesystems, other file systems also have their options.)
If the filesystem is already created, and you don't want to destroy it and all of the data on it, just use the tune2fs program, again with the -L option.
Hope this helps,
greg k-h --
Is there a reiserfs equivalent for tune2fs? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Chee How Chua wrote:
Is there a reiserfs equivalent for tune2fs?
<http://www.google.com/linux?q=reiserfs+equivalent+for+tune2fs> the 4th hit says reiserfstune Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Is there a reiserfs equivalent for tune2fs?
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Greg KH wrote:
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 06:09:51AM -0700, Donald D Henson wrote:
I have four partitions on three external disk drives. They show up in my Gnome Places Panel as <capacity> Volume. For example:
129 GB Volume
I would like to have them show up with a more meaningful name, such as:
Public
This seems like a problem with a simple solution but the articles I've found so far go into theoretical kernel jargon, about 99% of which I don't understand. Can anyone point me to an easily understandable procedure for naming a volume? I'd appreciate any assistance.
You can set the volume id when you create the volume initially with the mke2fs program using the -L option (this is for ext2/3 filesystems, other file systems also have their options.)
If the filesystem is already created, and you don't want to destroy it and all of the data on it, just use the tune2fs program, again with the -L option.
Hope this helps,
greg k-h
It seemed to be just what I needed but I can't get it to change the volume name. As root, I used the command: tune2fs -L Float /dev/sdc1 It appeared to work but when I looked at it's properties, the Volume name hadn't changed. Do you see anything wrong with the command? Don Henson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 02:27:22PM -0700, Donald D Henson wrote:
Greg KH wrote:
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 06:09:51AM -0700, Donald D Henson wrote:
I have four partitions on three external disk drives. They show up in my Gnome Places Panel as <capacity> Volume. For example:
129 GB Volume
I would like to have them show up with a more meaningful name, such as:
Public
This seems like a problem with a simple solution but the articles I've found so far go into theoretical kernel jargon, about 99% of which I don't understand. Can anyone point me to an easily understandable procedure for naming a volume? I'd appreciate any assistance.
You can set the volume id when you create the volume initially with the mke2fs program using the -L option (this is for ext2/3 filesystems, other file systems also have their options.)
If the filesystem is already created, and you don't want to destroy it and all of the data on it, just use the tune2fs program, again with the -L option.
Hope this helps,
greg k-h
It seemed to be just what I needed but I can't get it to change the volume name. As root, I used the command:
tune2fs -L Float /dev/sdc1
It appeared to work but when I looked at it's properties, the Volume name hadn't changed. Do you see anything wrong with the command?
How did you look at the properties of the device? Did you reboot? Try running the volume-id program to view it. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-11-29 at 14:27 -0700, Donald D Henson wrote:
It seemed to be just what I needed but I can't get it to change the volume name. As root, I used the command:
tune2fs -L Float /dev/sdc1
It appeared to work but when I looked at it's properties, the Volume name hadn't changed. Do you see anything wrong with the command?
Issue the command "mount -l". The line for the device should list the label if it has one. I don't know if you need to remount the partition, too :-? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFHT0MgtTMYHG2NR9URArHQAJ46/eqzGuUTwYhavviPbSBhj4zhPACbB6B0 aktlCA/7lvftctQTjAHqRro= =3rMC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Thursday 2007-11-29 at 14:27 -0700, Donald D Henson wrote:
It seemed to be just what I needed but I can't get it to change the volume name. As root, I used the command:
tune2fs -L Float /dev/sdc1
It appeared to work but when I looked at it's properties, the Volume name hadn't changed. Do you see anything wrong with the command?
Issue the command "mount -l". The line for the device should list the label if it has one.
I don't know if you need to remount the partition, too :-?
- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
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I knew it was something simple. It was me. There are three entities involved: Label; Volume Name; and Gnome. Gnome renames 'label' to 'name' and then uses 'volume name' as a display name. I had them all confused. To make a long story short and to keep from confusing everyone, I now have all four volumes labeled, named, and mounting in a consistent sequence. Thanks for everyone's help. Don Henson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Donald D Henson wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Thursday 2007-11-29 at 14:27 -0700, Donald D Henson wrote:
It seemed to be just what I needed but I can't get it to change the volume name. As root, I used the command:
tune2fs -L Float /dev/sdc1
It appeared to work but when I looked at it's properties, the Volume name hadn't changed. Do you see anything wrong with the command? Issue the command "mount -l". The line for the device should list the label if it has one.
I don't know if you need to remount the partition, too :-?
- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
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I knew it was something simple. It was me. There are three entities involved: Label; Volume Name; and Gnome. Gnome renames 'label' to 'name' and then uses 'volume name' as a display name. I had them all confused. To make a long story short and to keep from confusing everyone, I now have all four volumes labeled, named, and mounting in a consistent sequence. Thanks for everyone's help.
Yet another reason to stay away from Gnome. I swear the Gnome developers are brain dead. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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