Dual boot, auto mount NTFS partition

[Nils Kassube]

Colin Law wrote:
> 2009/5/27 Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
> > 2009/5/27 Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>
> >> Colin Law wrote:
> >> > Certainly, thanks to Rick and NoOp.  There is one minor point
> >> > remaining, though it is only a detail.  On the Places menu it
> >> > still appears as 58.5 GB Media, is there any way of changing the
> >> > text here?
> >>
> >> Yes. Give the partition a label:
> >> <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RenameUSBDrive>
> >
> > I installed gparted as suggested in the link, and unmounted the
> > partition. When I right click the partition I do not see a Label
> > option, however.  The version of gparted is 0.3.8.
>
> Correction - there is a Label option but it is disabled.  I have
> googled in vain for the reason. I have unmounted the device.  Could
> it be because it is the boot partition?

Did you install the package ntfsprogs? Without that package you can't 
label a NTFS partition. Or if it is a problem of your gparted version 
(0.4.3 works but I don't know about 0.3.8) you could label the partition 
using Windows.


Nils