Hello all -
I have an external hard drive with 8 volumes (partitions). Is there any way to rename one or more partitions (volumes) without having to erase and re-partition the entire drive?
Thanks in advance for any thoughts -
-TheOldFart
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 4GB 500GB
Finder -> Go -> Go to Folder -> /Volumes
Click on the mounted partition so that highlights the volume name
Press <return>
Rename name the partition just like you would any file or folder name
Press <return> to fix the name in place
-OR- press <esc> to cancel the rename
If your partition is mounted on the Desktop, you can just do the rename there, no need to go to the /Volumes folder.
Thank you sir! That did the trick.
I had always been keeping the partitions on my desktop, but never thought that would be the place to re-name them. (Then when I looked back at your first response, I did see that's what you said I could do in the first place.)
Thanks again for bearing with me on this -
- TheOldFart
Hi Bob -
Thanks for your reply.
When I do Finder -> Go -> Go to Folder -> /Volumes, I do get a listing of MacintoshHD's folders plus the Volumes folder, but with "Volumes" and its folder icon grayed out. When I then click that Volumes folder, I get a listing of aliases
to the volumes on my external disk (plus the folder directly to Macintosh HD). Then clicking on the alias to the name I want to change lists all the folders in that volume; but clicking its name the second time (or more) does not give me the selection box to change its name. Am I missing something? Or is there some setting (in Disk Utility or somewhere else) that I can change? - or that I should have changed when partitioning the disk using Disk Utility?
- TheOldFart
The only Alias in /Volumes should be the boot disk. All the others should be volume names that you can rename.
If you want to change the boot volume then you need to set your Finder -> Preferences -> General -> Show these items on the desktop -> [X] Hard disks
Then rename the boot volume from the desktop. While this option is set, all your mounted partitions should be displayed on the desktop, and you can rename any of them from their.
After you have renamed them, you can turn off the Finder preference if you do not want them displayed on your desktop.
Is there any way to rename a volume of a partitioned hard drive?
