Rename Harddisk ?

Hi guys

This is something I would also like to do as I have a drive /dev/sdd1 which doesn't have a drive name at all could you give me the command I would need to use to give it the name "movies"

Many thanks

Graeme

e2label

Usage of e2label is simple. manpage for e2label shows following command line options,

e2label device [ new-label ]

device can be the entire drive or a partition.
eg.
/dev/sda is the entire drive
/dev/sda1 is the first partition of device /dev/sda
/dev/sda2 is the second partition of device /dev/sda

eg. to show the label of /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda3

# e2label /dev/sda1
/boot

# e2label /dev/sda3
/

To change the label for /dev/sda3, do as follows,
# e2label /dev/sda3 changed-label

and to confirm the change was done sucessfully,
# e2label /dev/sda3
changed-label

if you want a / in front of the label,

# e2label /dev/sda3 /changed-label

to verify that the change was done,

# e2label /dev/sda3
/changed-label

if you want the server to be able to boot next time round, ensure changes are made to /etc/fstab as well. Otherwise, on the next boot, you may be prompted with errors, eg.

fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve 'LABEL=/boot'
fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve 'LABEL=/'

in which case, you can boot up with a rescue disk, eg. CentOS installation disk, enter "linux rescue" at prompt; chroot /mnt/sysimage and edit /etc/fstab accordingly. Alternatively, if you are prompted for root password, and gets a shell, you may be able to edit /etc/fstab. If the filesystem is readonly, remount the filesytem readwrite. eg. mount -o remount,rw /

Thank you very much for the instructions it worked perfectly

I haven't tried rebooting yet or made any changed to the /etc/fstab file as I don't really know what to change, the drive I renamed was not a boot drive or have / at the beginning, will it still be necessary to edit /etc/fstab

Many thanks

Graeme

Hi

I tried the e2label command but now i seem to have two srv subdirectories for one single HDD

i had a directory called
'/srv/disk-bylabel-3TB'
which corresponds to a single HDD called /dev/sdc1

and i used
# e2label /dev/sdc1 3TBE

now i have two direcotories
'/srv/disk-bylabel-3TB'
and
'/srv/disk-bylabel-3TB'

what gives? how do i fix this?

i Renamed it back , then deleted the extra HDD "rm dev-disk-by-label-name" and it seems ok now.

what is the correct way to rename a HDD label in OMV?