I have 3 fedora systems installed on 3 separate 2 TB SSD disks in my computer. When I use GNOME Nautilus “Other locations” to examine them they have identifiers “fedora” “Fedora Linux” and “fedora00”. I do not remember doing anything when I installed the systems to set these names but when I next do an install I would like to control their setting. Does anyone know where in the install process one can choose this identifier. I would like to set them to something identifying them as fedora or Ubuntu or whatever the Linux system is and the particular drive on which they are installed. I name my drives with six character names HDD###, SSD### or NMV### so I would like to set them to things like for example “Fedora SSD042” or “Ubuntu NMV043”.
I’m not sure what you are seeing. CAn you show the same information from a command line tool? mount? lsblk?
If you use manual partitioning in the installer, you can set a “Label” per partition during install.
This label is the identifier I see under “Devices” in Dolphin, so I guess it might be similar in Nautilus.
I don’t know if you can set the label during install if you let the installer use the default partitioning scheme. But no problem, you should be able to set it later using GNOME Disks.
This are default mount names which are by automatic installation simply fedora.
I saw this already when there are existing mount-points. Fedora then simply uses the sintax of adding “00”.
It even uses fedora as default host name. So while installing a workstation with the live iso and the automatic setup you will not be able to change that (the disk label).
But I’m quite confident that you can change it manually after installation.
Hostname you can change with hostnamectl
@pg-tips already mentioned that you can use labels to set different names for volumes etc. Also when automounting it takes what it has. If there is no label it uses a defalt sometimes just uses the I do like gparted, howewer disks does also it’s job.
You need to chose manual partitioning to set volume name – Custom
After you add / /home /boot /boot/efi or biosboot (my example) when select home or / you can see on right side volume : fedora : modify click modify and you can change name fedora to anything you like
Barry Scott.
I do not know of command line tools to answer your question as I am early in the learning curve for using the command line. What I know I learned from William E Shotts very good online tutorial “The Linux Command Line” but since my purpose was to learn bash programming I concentrated on that section of the book once I was sufficiently au fait with the command line to do so. Occasionally I use the .pdf search function to learn something which I have come to need. Apart from that most of what I have learned about useful command line commands come from google searches and answers to my queries on sites like ask fedora and Unix stack exchange.
However I can attach a screen shot of the top left section of the Gnome Nautilus screen showing “other locations”. Only “fedora” and “Fedora Linux” are shown as I have disconnected the SSD on which “fedora00” is installed.
Thank you, I think you have answered my question.
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I have finally installed f41 on my system and followed your advice about setting the boot volume name as I wanted. Thankyou for your helpful reply.
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I have finally installed f41 following your suggested procedure and have the boot volume named as I wanted. Thankyou for your help.
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Thank you for your helpful reply. It explains how I got 3 variations of the name fedora on 3 different boot volumes. I have used hostnamectl to reset my preferred hostname. I had to do the install from the f41 DVD as my boot volume was too small for a network based upgrade, I have expanded it from under 400Mib to 1GiB and I hope this is enough to do future network upgrades.
Had to use parted to delete existing partitions to make it possible to use full disk capacity and specify sizes as Mib and GiB to ensure alignment.
You can change the label without reinstalling the system:
sudo btrfs filesystem label / "Test Label"
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