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.

          WetGeek Pamela would be a cool name for your hard drive though

            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?

                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

                  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.

                        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.