How to change hard drive name

Question

my hard drive is located in /media/ronin_cunningham/408242E58242DED2 and I want to change the name 408242E58242DED2 to StorageDevice. How would I do this from the terminal?

Thanks.

Solution

The easiest way to do this would be to do it with GUI

• Go to disk app (through Unity Dash or terminal with gnome-disks command)
• Choose your partition
• Click the little gear icon
• Select Edit mount options
• Toggle Automatic Mount Option to Off
• Edit mount point to /media/ronin_cunningham/StorageDevice

On a side note, this will also enable your partition to be mounted automatically on start up, If you don't want that to happen then make sure to

• Un-mark Mount at Startup

You'd want to do this if your Bootup times are slow

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Comments

[Sumeet Deshmukh]

if you want to do this through command, then please update your question with output of lsblk

[Anwar]

or this one askubuntu.com/questions/147319/…

[Xen2050]

Unclear if you want to change the partition / file system label, or just change the mountpoint. The answer below sounds like what you want (mountpoint only), though the "duplicate" question changes the label too

[Sumeet Deshmukh]

@DKBoss should I edit that in my answer?

[DK Bose]

That's totally your call! If you feel it may improve your answer, do so. Otherwise, your answer is fine as it is.

[R_C]

This worked, you guys are very helpful to Linux noobs like me, thank you!

[Kvothe]

Does this require a reboot to take effect? If so is there anything I can manually run to update this without a reboot. (I tried the above and it still gets mounted to the wrong Mount Point, I guess I will try rebooting but I would have preferred it if that weren't required.)

[Kvothe]

Okay that was not the issue. It still does not work. It is still mounting to the previous default location.