Why can't I rename my floppy drive?

[NoOp]

On 07/29/2008 10:34 AM, Jimmy Montague wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 10:13 -0700, NoOp wrote:
>> On 07/29/2008 04:59 AM, Jimmy Montague wrote:
>> > I installed a floppy drive. Nautilus showed the drive (named FLOPPY)
>> > present in the system. To test the drive, I gave it a diskette named
>> > QMOSAIC1. Then I right-clicked the icon and selected "mount". Ubuntu
>> > read the diskette and changed the name of the drive to QMOSAIC1. Now I
>> > can't change the name of the drive back to FLOPPY. Whenever I try,
>> > Nautilus gives me an error: 
>> > 
>> > "Sorry, couldn't rename "QMOSAIC1" to "FLOPPY": Operation not supported
>> > by backend."
>> > 
>> > What can I do about that?
>> > 
>> > I tried a terminal window: gksudo nautilus and all of that. The floppy
>> > icon doesn't show up until I put a diskette in it and mount the drive.
>> > When I then try to rename it, Nautilus says it can't rename because the
>> > device is in use.
>> > 
>> > What can I do about that?
>> > 
>> > How do I make this machine do what I want it to do?
>> > 
>> > I never had problems like this in Windoze.
>> > 
>> > 
>> 
>> You must also 'unmount' the floppy. Put the floppy back in and
>> right-click unmount.
>> 
>> 
> 
> Nonsense. If I gksudo or just plain sudo, when the Nautilus window
> opens, the result is the same. If I try to rename the drive icon,
> Nautilus tells me it can't rename because the device is busy. If I first
> unmount the drive, the icon disappears so there's nothing then to
> right-click on. The only way I can click on the drive is to mount the
> drive and then I can't rename because the device is busy. If I unmount
> the drive, the device disappears.
> 
> 

OK. I was on Gutsy - I just checked on hardy and you are correct. I
mounted a floppy (FREEDOS) and now the floppy drive in Nautilus is
FREEDOS instead of floppy. When I put a different floppy & mount the
name doesn't change.