Hi
Fedora 12, x86_64, kde 4.4.5.
I have some unmounted partitions which show up in the Places pane in Dolphin labelled with their volume label.
I changed the volume label, but Dolphin still shows them with the old label.
I tried logging out and in again but the partitions still show with the old volume labels.
Any suggestions as to how I get Dolphin to show these partitions with the new volume labels??
Thanks
Roderick
Roderick Johnstone wrote:
Any suggestions as to how I get Dolphin to show these partitions with the new volume labels??
Just a wild guess:
Dolphin likely uses the blkid database to get its names.
You could see man blkid for more information.
In the past, I have sometimes resorted to manually editing /etc/blkid/blkid.tab. Be careul not to make any changes that will prevent the system from booting, as these UUIDs are also referenced in /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.conf. If you do make changes, these files will have to be updated, and also you will have to make sure that the changed partitions actually have those new labels (see man e2label). Don't give the swap partition a new label (unless you know what you are doing), because this produced a nightmare of interrelated complications, with suspend/hibernate/resume, dracut's initramfs and who knows what else.
On 30/10/10 20:31, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
Roderick Johnstone wrote:
Any suggestions as to how I get Dolphin to show these partitions with the new volume labels??
Just a wild guess:
Dolphin likely uses the blkid database to get its names.
You could see man blkid for more information.
In the past, I have sometimes resorted to manually editing /etc/blkid/blkid.tab. Be careul not to make any changes that will prevent the system from booting, as these UUIDs are also referenced in /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.conf. If you do make changes, these files will have to be updated, and also you will have to make sure that the changed partitions actually have those new labels (see man e2label). Don't give the swap partition a new label (unless you know what you are doing), because this produced a nightmare of interrelated complications, with suspend/hibernate/resume, dracut's initramfs and who knows what else.
Petrus
Thanks for the ideas (and the warnings), but blkid is reporting the new labels and /etc/blkid/blkid.tab has the new labels!
I can't think where Dolphin is getting the old labels from. Some cache somewhere I guess.
Roderick
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Roderick Johnstone rmj@ast.cam.ac.uk wrote:
I can't think where Dolphin is getting the old labels from. Some cache somewhere I guess.
What does the kernel show? ls /dev/disk/by-label/
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On 02/11/10 22:21, Chris Smart wrote:
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Roderick Johnstonermj@ast.cam.ac.uk wrote:
I can't think where Dolphin is getting the old labels from. Some cache somewhere I guess.
What does the kernel show? ls /dev/disk/by-label/
It shows the new labels!
Roderick
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On 03/11/10 16:05, Roderick Johnstone wrote:
On 02/11/10 22:21, Chris Smart wrote:
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Roderick Johnstonermj@ast.cam.ac.uk wrote:
I can't think where Dolphin is getting the old labels from. Some cache somewhere I guess.
What does the kernel show? ls /dev/disk/by-label/
It shows the new labels!
Roderick
ok fixed. It needed hal to be restarted.
Thanks for everyone's ideas.
Roderick
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Roderick Johnstone rmj@ast.cam.ac.uk wrote:
ok fixed. It needed hal to be restarted.
OK, good :-)
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