[ubuntu-in] renaming / re-identifying external hard disk partitions (SOLVED)

[Balaji Narayanan]

Ramnarayan.K said the following on Tuesday 12 February 2008 03:05 PM:
> Hi
> 
> One more problem solved
> On Feb 12, 2008 10:22 AM, Balaji Narayanan <lists at balajin.net 
> <mailto:lists at balajin.net>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     e2label will be your friend.
> 
> 
> after install the e2tools the e2label worked fine.
> 
> because it was , seemingly, not working i had tried a few different 
> rename options
> which are as follows and i cannot truly say which one worked
> 
> sudo sudo e2label /media/disk 2linux (most probably the working command)
> 
> sudo e2label /dev/sdb1 "2linux"

I guess it is this once since you are modifying the device.


> 
> the change did not take place till i rebooted ???
> 
> this is my current renamed external device profile
> /dev/sdb1     ext3     92G   53G   35G  60% /media/2linux
> /dev/sdb2     vfat     56G  1.3G   55G   3% /media/disk
> 
> 
> as you can see it renamed the device at the mount point and not the 
> device it self

This is correct. The mountpoint is autocreated and the disk is mounted 
there. You will always see actual device name on the left side.

you could have unmounted, unplugged and plugged the disk without a reboot.

-balaji