Hardy problems

David Vincent dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca
Sat Apr 26 15:34:09 UTC 2008


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Craig Hagerman wrote:
> MOUNTED DISCS
> I have three data hard drives that show up as icons on the desktop. Up
> until now they have shown up by mount point.They are all mounted on
> /media with names like "Music", "Video", "Library". Now, there seems
> to have been some changes and instead the discs are displayed by their
> label (which is not set), meaning that they are listed with names like
> "500.1 GB Media", which is neither what I want nor helpful. If you set
> a new label for a disk it wipes it. Is there any way to go back to the
> old way of displaying mounted discs?

what filesystem are they?  i seem to recall being able to change the
label on ext2/3 without wiping my data but on fat16/32 everything is
destroyed.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RenameUSBDrive

- -d
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFIE0txfpRzWFIV0XMRAsIGAJ4xKRC83JDSfMtrAujLJlRT9S0JywCgh2w3
aN1GcGzrKCSd1hEDjti7sbw=
=7dow
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----




More information about the ubuntu-users mailing list