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Raqua

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Registered: 2007-11-24

Posts: 146

KDEmod desktop drive icons naming [solved]

Hello.

I am using KDEmod and it is great. One thing bothers me though. I set my system so, that it shows drive icons on desktop so I can mount them just by clicking them. I have a few volumes going from sda1 to sda10. THe thing that bothers me is, that these volumes do not show up with their names (sda1, sda2 etc..) but with their side - 15G Media, 40G Media etc....
Is there some place where I can set this ? I was able to rename most of those just by editing their properties, but I can not rename the / partition.
I tried to search here first, but nothing showed up.
Thanks in advance.

Last edited by Raqua (2008-01-01 19:27:05)

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: KDEmod desktop drive icons naming [solved]

When KDE chooses an icon name it first looks for the filesystem label and settles on size if that fails. I also think that partitions listed in /etc/fstab get handled differently.

Last edited by byte (2007-12-31 08:17:40)

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pelle.k

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From: Åre, Sweden (EU)

Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 667

Re: KDEmod desktop drive icons naming [solved]

Normally you can edit partition names in media:// or just create "shortcut to drive" on the desktop, and name that one.
You can also set volume labels with e2label (ext2/ext3), mlabel (fat32, mlabel is in mtools package) or ntfslabel (ntfs, ntfslabel is in ntfsprogs package i belive). There is an equivalent for resierfs as well. The latter method is persistent, and also works with xfce/gnome.

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Raqua

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Registered: 2007-11-24

Posts: 146

Re: KDEmod desktop drive icons naming [solved]

Thanks guys, e2label did the trick.