On 06/15/2011 02:02 PM, Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 11:38 +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
>> Reading, reporting and interpreting labels are not the job of the USB
>> drivers or their maintainers. The right people to help really are the
>> maintainers of the user space hardware abstraction subsystems and the
>> various desktop environments.
>
> And how about giving the devices a label? That's something that really
> sucks on all the Linux desktops I've tried.
Well, I'm an old fashioned terminal user and I don't mind reading the man page
for mkfs.vfat to find out how to set the volume name of a file system (it's -n
volume-name btw) but I see your point.
Luckily udisks, the component that implements the disk abstractions used by the
higher level desktop environment UIs appears to have thought of this:
# rpm -ql udisks | grep label
/usr/libexec/udisks-helper-change-filesystem-label
If I launch gnome-disk-utility ("Disk utility" in the menu, palimpsest from the
command line) either while the volume is unmounted, or unmount using the gui and
select a USB key from the device tree I am presented with a "Edit file system
label" button that allows me to change the label and hence the mountpoint name.
The only part of all of this that gave me any cause to scratch my head was
working out how to unmount the device using just the GUI (I didn't spot the
Unmount Volume button in disk utility at first).
Seriously - it took me about five minutes to figure this out. I wouldn't say
that sucks too hard.
> Other OS's let you select a device and rename it through the GUI. Don't
> like it being called USBdisc? Then rename it to musicdrive, the same
> way as you'd rename any other file or folder (usually: right-click,
> rename).
I agree it would be nice to have nautilus wired up to do this and it makes a lot
of sense but the only bug report that I could find upstream was this:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=413172
Which is asking for a way to change the displayed (icon) name without changing
the volume name..
Regards,
Bryn.
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