Is it possible to name a partition?

[Rashkae]

Young wrote:
> On my old dual boot (XP/Ubuntu) system I had shared NTFS partitions for 
> users' data and media files. I formatted the partitions in XP and 
> labeled/named them appropriately for easy identification.
> 
> The names show up in properties, and everywhere else in Gnome and 
> application programs.
> 
> 
> On a new Ubuntu only system, using GParted, I seem to be stuck with a 
> default partition descriptor that is the size & "Media" (5.4 GB Media, 
> 53.7 GB Media, etc.).
> 
> Is there a way to rename these?

Install the ntfsprogs package, which includes ntfslabel.  I don't know
if this will work from gparted, of if you need to use the command line
to get it done.