Desktop Icon Names for ntfs automounted drives

[Nils Kassube]

NoOp wrote:
> I seem to recall sometime back in Feisty/Gutsy that when my automounted
> ntfs drives came up on the desktop, the desktop icon reflected the name
> of the drive in fstab. For example:
>
> /dev/sdb1 on /media/windows type fuseblk
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=512)
>
> and as listed in fstab:
>
> /dev/sdb1 /media/windows  ntfs  iocharset=utf8,umask=000    0  0
>
> would appear on the desktop icon labeled as 'windows'. However, since
> 8.04 they only appear as the media size. The drive above shows up as
> "37.9 GB Media" under the icon rather than "windows".

At least with Kubuntu the label is displayed instead of the media size if 
the partition has a label. Look here if you don't know how to set a 
label: <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RenameUSBDrive>.


Nils