How to change name of USB-mounted volumes?

[Charlie Zender]

Hi All,

I have Android phones with strange "volume labels" I want to change.
When I attach these phones to my Ubuntu laptop via USB, they appear as
4C06-1903 (the Nexus S) and '¾ (yes, that's a strange ASCII character
that looks like single quote three quarters, and is the name of the
HTC G1). How do I (from Linux) permanently change these "volume
labels"?

Thanks,
Charlie
-- 
Charlie Zender, Department of Earth System Science
University of California, Irvine (949) 891-2429 :)