ntfs-3g drives mounted on desktop F8

[Richard Shaw]

On Jan 16, 2008 11:29 AM, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've installed F8 (finally took the 64bit plunge and it seems to be
> going well so far).  This machine has two ntfs partitions on it and
> under F7 I used ntfs-config to set them up.  One is used for
> Windows and I want it read-only, the other is for shared data
> and can be read-write.  When I installed F8 I discovered they
> showed up in the computer folder and mounted them from there;
> now they are both on the desktop, described as "30.3 GB
> Volume" and "32.6 GB Volume" and both read-write.
>
> What I want to do is give them rational names and change one
> to read only.  I have installed ntfs-config to set one of them up
> to a sensible mount point, but it still appears on the desktop
> as "30.3 GB Volume".  Is there any sensible way to fix this?
> (I assume I could do some funny HAL rules, but that seems
> un-necessarily hack-ish.)
>
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In my experience, Nautilus pulls the volume label if available. It probably
just isn't set.

I used MLABEL for my iPod but it is a FAT32 file system... It looks like
ntfsprogs has a command line method to set labels on NTFS partitions.

http://man.linux-ntfs.org/ntfsprogs.8.html


Richard
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