(I'm not sending this out to the list, as I am not completely sure that my
surmises are correct here.)

I believe that if you label the partitions, they will show up with the labels,
just as USB sticks do.  I also believe that you can use gparted to label the
partitions.  I do not believe that labelling the partitions will affect their
behaviour under Windows.

Just remember than any attempt to modify partitions can cause damage to your
system.

peter


On 01/31/2016 07:40 AM, Ron Leach wrote:
> List, good afternoon,
> 
> I've just finished upgrading a dual-booting Fedora/Windows netbook from
> F14/XFCE to F23.  I haven't been able to solve a minor difficulty, to do with
> the naming of the Windows partitions.
> 
> In F23 I see a (new to me) feature that the Windows partitions automatically
> appear in both the File Manager, and on the desktop. Previously in F14, I had
> set mount points for the Windows partitions, and I'd named the mount points
> WinC and WinD, for example, so that when I needed to access one or the other I
> could easily see which one to mount.  In F23 now, though, the windows
> partitions are visible already as (for example)  '21 GB Volume' and '63 GB
> Volume'.  I can not find how or where these names are assigned, hoping that I
> could have replaced those names with a named mountpoint.
> 
> In F14, I'd set my preferred partition mountpoint names in fstab, but in F23
> these partitions are not listed in fstab - despite the partitions already
> being visible on the desktop and in the File Manager.  I'd prefer that F23
> didn't present these partitions with those names, and instead let the
> partitions exist in fstab where they can be mounted onto more meaningful
> names.  (I would still wish to benefit from F23's recognition of 'removable'
> media which, I think, might be a mechanism that F23 is using to present these
> Windows partitions.)
> 
> Is there a way to prevent F23 using anything but fstab to create any
> visibility of these (fixed, not removable) partitions?    (I could just add
> these to fstab myself, but I have not done so yet because I wasn't sure
> whether doing so would mess things up without also removing whatever mounting
> system F23 is using for them at the moment, eg particularly on mounting or on
> writing anything to the partition if 2 mount points were existing/active.)
> 
> It's a minor problem but I'd be grateful for any suggestions.  (It would be
> handy anyway to understand the present mounting arrangement, as well.)
> 
> Ron
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