Disk name

[Deleted member 9563]

I have an external hard drive in a USB connected box. What I would like to do is give it a name which will show up when it is mounted. Here is what I did, which didn't seem to work in that regard:

# gpart add -t freebsd-ufs  -l etb-fs -s 920G da0

I thought I would end up with a "label" of "etb-fs", but perhaps my idea of that is not correct. When I plug in a USB memory stick, it says "KINGSTON". That one is a FAT device, but can a UFS partitioned device not also display a name?

 

[wblock@]

GPT labels appear in /dev/gpt/. Whatever is displaying the name may only be looking at filesystem labels. UFS can have those also, but it would depend on the program knowing to look for them in /dev/ufs/.

 

[Deleted member 9563]

Thanks Warren. I didn't understand how that worked. KDE mounts the external drive as disk. I'll have to plug in a second one at the same time to see if it can figure that out.

 

[SirDice]

Simplest solution is to stick it in a Windows box and rename the drive there.

 

[DutchDaemon]

@rosesilver, which FreeBSD version are you running? Post the output of your uname -a.