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1. • • Highlight the drive on the left, unmount it by clicking the little black square below the graphic partition layout, then Click the 2 gears below the graphic partition layout and select Edit Filesystem. Erase current name and put new name in Try and use a short name without spaces. Dashes and underscores are okay.
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   How do I rename a drive in Linux?

   • Click the drive you want to rename and select a partition. All drives are listed in the panel to the left. Linux may have extra partitions of Swap, Boot, Home etc. Select appropriate partition. Click the icon that resembles two gears. It's the third button below the "Volumes" label.

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   How to rename computer in Linux Mint?

   • To Rename Computer in Linux Mint and Change PC Host Name, do the following. Open the Root Terminal. Edit the file /etc/hostname with your favorite text editor. It can be Gedit, Xeditor, vi, nano - any graphical or console app you like.It contains your current PC name. Change the PC name in the file and save it. Now, edit the file /etc/hosts.

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   How do I rename a partition in Linux?

   • In your Linux distribution (in my case at the moment of writing Zorin OS 15, but it works for every distribution as long as you have the Disks application) follow the next simple steps to rename a partition without the hassle of reformatting: 1) Go to your applications. 2) Search for Disks. 3) Click on Disks to start the application.

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   How do I rename a GParted drive?

   • Launch GParted -> Unmount the drive -> Rename by setting new label. For more info visit this website. The easiest thing to do is to for a permanent result is to give the filesystem a label. The way you do this depends on what filesystem you formatted it as. First find the device it is on: ... /dev/sdc1 vfat ...

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   How do I change the name of a device in Linux?

   • Neither Windows nor Linux nor any OS can change the name of a device; the name is hard-coded in its firmware. What they do is change the label of the partitions. If there's no label, then Windows displays the volume name, like C:, and Linux displays the device name.

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   How to change partition name in Windows 10?

   • 1) Go to your applications. 2) Search for Disks. 3) Click on Disks to start the application. 8) Select the option “Edit filesystem …” 9) Enter the desired name here in the Label field. You will now see the partition with the newly created name in your file manager or directly on your desktop. It is that simple!

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   Apr 17, 2019 · You can always name an EXT file-system. With GPT you can name a partition too. I would boot a Live Session Mint and use the Accessory gparted to do that. Your mount instructions in File /etc/fstab would need to be manually edited and a new mount point (folder) made.

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   Feb 22, 2018 · There are a number of ways to change the labels, depending on where you want to use a GUI or CLI. All partition-management software will allow you to change the labels and IIRC, there is some that only change the labels. You can only change the labels if you have root (admin) privileges.

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   Sep 20, 2019 · 1) Go to your applications. 2) Search for Disks. 3) Click on Disks to start the application. 4) Select the hard disk on the left. 5) Then select the partition to be renamed to the right under Volumes. 6) Click on the little block / stop icon to unmount the partition (Unmount selected partition) 7) Click on the gear icon.

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   Nov 12, 2018 · If you want to give an external drive a label you can use the disks utility (edit filesystem). You can also edit your fstab file to define where drives/partitions get mounted, for example, I've got a 2TB HDD sat in the ultrabay on my laptop, it is mounted as /media/ultrabay - this is defined in fstab.

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   Oct 12, 2013 · Method 1# using dosfslabel ( As @Macro suggested ) Umount Partition. sudo umount <device> Set Label using : sudo dosfslabel <device> label. Method 2# using mtools.

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    Jun 10, 2016 · You can use GParted to rename partition. To install GParted use, $ sudo apt-get install gparted. Launch GParted -> Unmount the drive -> Rename by setting new label. For more info visit this website.