[Hoary] How to assign a volume label to removeable devices ?

Matthew S-H mathbymath at aol.com
Wed Apr 6 11:58:44 UTC 2005


Also, it might be nice to have it built in to nautilus so that all you 
have to do is right-click the disk and click something like "Rename" 
and be able to type in a new name.

~Matt



On Apr 5, 2005, at 2:48 PM, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:

> When you burn a CD, you can give it a name, and when you mount it,
> Nautilus uses this label/name to display it under the CD drive icon.
>
> In MS-DOS you had the "volume" (IIRC) command to give a name to ZIP
> disks, floppy discs etc. How do I do that in Ubuntu ?
> Is there a unique command that works for all kind of removeable media,
> or do you multiple command for USB devices/memory cards, ZIP disk,
> floppies etc ?
>
> That would help a lot in making Ubuntu more refined/polushed/user
> friendly.
>
> Thanks in advance... :-)
>
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