Good Afternoon, I have a question regarding the name of my Startup Disk. I recently changed the name of my startup disk from "Macintosh HD" to "Mac" and everything is fine on the OS side of things, but when I enter the boot picker it displays the Startup Disk's name as "Macintosh HD" and not as "Mac". How would I make it so that it displays the name of the Startup Disk as what I changed it to, if anyone can help I would be very grateful.
Thanks,
Ethan
So in other words, once the drive is formatted/converted to APFS, there is no way to change the name on a system level if I understand correctly, right?
APFS has nothing to do with it. It is Catalina's security model that prevents you from changing that volume name.
Try renaming it in Disk Utility.
Click on the View popup menu in the Toolbar and select "Show all devices."
You should then see a device with a ContainerDiskX listed and under that two volumes, i.e., Macintosh HD and Macintosh HD - Data. Select the plain volume name and double-click the name in the info pane to rename it.
See if that updates the Startup Disk name.
Check the System/Sharing preference pane so see what the Computer Name is. You can change it there.
Well, the truth is, you didn't rename the startup volume name. You renamed the realized name of the Data volume associated with the Startup Volume.
In Catalina, there is a system (startup) volume that is mounted Read Only. The default name is Macintosh HD.
There is a read-write volume with the added " - Data" suffix. The OS merges them into what appears to be a single volume.
You cannot alter the System volume because it is read-only.
All you changed was the name that the OS reveals to you.
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Read all repliesCheck the System/Sharing preference pane so see what the Computer Name is. You can change it there.
Thank you for your time and your answer, but this is not what i'm trying to fix, i'm trying to fix the name of the disk when shown in the boot picker.
That should do it? It did it for me. What does the System/Startup Disk preference pane indicate?
Old Toad wrote:
Check the System/Sharing preference pane so see what the Computer Name is. You can change it there.
FWIW, that changes the computer's name, not the drive name.
I must have renamed the drive as you would file when I was booted into another system via an EHD. I've added custom icons to the drives that way.
Well, the truth is, you didn't rename the startup volume name. You renamed the realized name of the Data volume associated with the Startup Volume.
In Catalina, there is a system (startup) volume that is mounted Read Only. The default name is Macintosh HD.
There is a read-write volume with the added " - Data" suffix. The OS merges them into what appears to be a single volume.
You cannot alter the System volume because it is read-only.
All you changed was the name that the OS reveals to you.
I don't know if it will help but try right/control clicking on the hard drive in the Finder sidebar…
FWIW, Barney could be correct. I'm fairly certain I changed the name of my hard drive before it was formatted as APFS.
Well, maybe not. Using "Rename…" from the drop down menu works for me.
So in other words, once the drive is formatted/converted to APFS, there is no way to change the name on a system level if I understand correctly, right?
That it does.
Ethan395 wrote:
So in other words, once the drive is formatted/converted to APFS, there is no way to change the name on a system level if I understand correctly, right?
See my previous post. I just changed it.
Well, there is no definite answer or a "for sure" answer but thank you all for your input and support.
No idea what you are saying. I just changed the drive name to "Mac" as you asked and it is reflected in the screen shot I posted. I would think that is a definite answer. ;)
Well, I wanted it to show its name as the new name in the boot picker but it shows the old name, which was my issue.
Question: Boot Picker Startup Disk Name
