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im sure this has been asked, perhaps even by myself but i just cant find it.
how do you rename the root partition in dolphins sidebar? (the one that says 927.3 GiB Internal Drive)
im sure this has been asked, perhaps even by myself but i just cant find it.
how do you rename the root partition in dolphins sidebar? (the one that says 927.3 GiB Internal Drive)
Lucien_Lachance I renamed a partition in gparted before but I forgot it that was a one-time deal when you create the partition...(?)
booting a live cd and running gparted on the now unmounted drive doesent seem to work either. that is, i can give it a label, but it still shows up as in the screenshot in dolphin
Lucien_Lachance it still shows up as in the screenshot in dolphin
I'm having a hard time understanding why this bothers you so much. These are called "Devices," and that's the name of the device. Calling it "Billy" or "Pamela" won't change anything at all.
Lucien_Lachance deep in the gnome-disks menu maybe?
I remember a name once not taking in the system so gave up. what you are looking for is a .conf
file maybe?
WetGeek
it helps me separate my root drive from my data drive wthiout having to think about which is which
brent i dont know what im looking for, in endeavouros it worked by renaming in gparted from live usb, but not on solus
ive tried gnome-disks, it yields the same result as gparted
its no big deal, just an annoyance
https://askubuntu.com/questions/732839/how-to-rename-a-partition
bunch a ways to do it, but will it stick? it showed the way in Disks
. also in article: a bunch of partion re-naming commands
brent
no luck, this is an encrypted drive btw
sudo e2label /dev/nvme0n1p2 root
e2label: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/nvme0n1p2
/dev/nvme0n1p2 contains a crypto_LUKS file system
Lucien_Lachance it helps me separate my root drive from my data drive
One might think that the one called "data" is your data drive, and the other one you root drive.
But you make a point that I hadn't thought of. For someone with two identical drives of the same type, and the same capacity, it might be handy to be able to rename them. In Dolphin, it would be hard to tell them apart.
WetGeek yeah i managed to rename the data drive,but not the other
Lucien_Lachance i managed to rename the data drive,but not the other
The root drive is quite a special device for the OS. There are probably tens, if not hundreds, of references to it in the system. It seems likely to me that if you could rename it, you might crash the system badly. These days, though, most drives are identified in /etc/fstab by guids, so I'm not sure that would actually be an issue.
It just seems to met that if the system doesn't allow you to change its name, there's probably a very good reason for it. Linux has always been pretty much a "have it your way" kind of OS.