Hard Drive has no name

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Hard Drive has no name

I just reinstalled Tiger and noticed that my Hard drive does not have a name. Shouldn't it have the short name for the computer?

Posted on Oct 3, 2005 5:10 PM

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Answer 1

Oct 3, 2005 5:38 PM in response to Michael C2

Does a name not appear if you open Disk Utility? The actual hardware name/type should appear first, but then indented below that the volume name (eg "Macintosh HD" or whatever you called it) should appear alongside a disk icon.

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Michael C2 Author

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Oct 3, 2005 5:45 PM in response to Michael Conniff

nothing at all.

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Answer 3

Oct 3, 2005 6:08 PM in response to Michael C2

Hmm In that case, let's see what the system thinks is going on

Open the Terminal (from /Applications/Utilities) and copy and paste the following into the Terminal window, followed by a return:

ls -aol /Volumes

Post all the output here.

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Michael C2 Author

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Oct 3, 2005 7:21 PM in response to Michael Conniff

total 40
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin - 1 Oct 3 13:15 -> /
drwxrwxrwt 4 root admin - 136 Oct 3 16:19 .
drwxrwxr-t 28 root admin - 1054 Oct 3 13:15 ..
drwxrwxrwx 1 mediamik mediamik arch 16384 Dec 31 1979 USB KEY
media-mikes-power-mac-g4:~ mediamike$

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Answer 5

Oct 4, 2005 3:09 AM in response to Michael C2

Michael

Well the first line of that shows the system also thinks the name is blank! It's a bit tricky renaming 'blank', so we need the device name. Again in Terminal, copy and paste the following into the Terminal window followed by a return:

diskutil list

Before doing this, remove your USB key and any other removable disks, iPods, etc to avoid confusion. Then post the output.

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Answer 6

Oct 4, 2005 4:09 AM in response to Michael Conniff

Michael,
It's nice to see such detailed help and assistance such as you have posted here.
Thanks,
Jim

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Michael C2 Author

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Oct 4, 2005 11:09 AM in response to Michael Conniff

Thanks so much for your help. Are these UNIX commands?

/dev/disk0
#: type name size identifier
0: Apple partitionscheme *172.6 GB disk0
1: Apple partitionmap 31.5 KB disk0s1
2: Apple_Driver43 28.0 KB disk0s2
3: Apple_Driver43 28.0 KB disk0s3
4: Apple DriverATA 28.0 KB disk0s4
5: Apple DriverATA 28.0 KB disk0s5
6: Apple_FWDriver 256.0 KB disk0s6
7: Apple DriverIOKit 256.0 KB disk0s7
8: Apple_Patches 256.0 KB disk0s8
9: Apple_HFS 172.5 GB disk0s9
media-mikes-power-mac-g4:~ mediamike$

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Answer 8

Oct 4, 2005 12:21 PM in response to Michael C2

Michael

Yes, these are Unix commands. Try this to give your disk a name:

In the Terminal again, copy and paste the following into the Terminal window:

diskutil rename disk0s9 MyDisk

Press return and you should see:

Disk renamed to MyDisk

You can change this later, if you wish, in the Finder. Just make sure that the name you use in the Terminal contains no spaces !

You can use diskutil list again to see that it has worked, also try the ls -l /Volumes command.

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