[NTLUG:Discuss] Mounted Volume Drive Icon Names - a mystery - [a gnome mystery]

[Jeff]

So, you want to change the volume names, or just the name used by the 
icon?  If it's a device like a hard drive, you could always just create 
a sym link and name it whatever you want...

terry wrote:
> I'm looking at my Ubuntu system and I *think* I see where the names for
> the mounted drives are coming from, but not sure, and do not see any
> way to change
> them.  (In some cases, it might be nice to change them to something a
> bit more descriptive).
> If you look at: /proc/ide/hda/media or /proc/ide/hdb/media or
> /proc/ide/hdc/media (which ever the case may be), you will [probably]
> see: "disk"
> e.g. [type this in a terminal window]:
> cat /proc/ide/hda/media
> or
> cat /proc/ide/hdb/media
> or
> cat  /proc/ide/hdc/media
> (you will see what I mean, on my system it simply  says "disk")
>
> Now if I plug in a USB Flash Memory Device, (such as the Kingston 128
> meg USB Flash memory stick I just plugged into this PC), I find the
> icon that appears on the Desktop is labeled "Kingston"
> So, I look at /proc/scsi/scsi and...
> cat /proc/scsi/scsi
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: Kingston Model: DataTraveler 2.0 Rev: 4.10
>   Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> ...so we might suppose that the name is derived from the first word
> after "Vendor:" (in the case of a device mounted under scsi emulation
> anyway), (or, at least, I assume that's where it is coming from).
>
> I'm [only now] supposing that this process is handled by  gnome-volume-manager
> and am looking at:
> man  gnome-volume-manager
> &
> man  gnome-volume-properties
>
> ...not really finding many answers there.. but
>
> I find that the icons are not really files at all - at least not
> anything that would appear in
> /home/user-name/Desktop, but they just appear there by some stoke of
> Ubuntu magic.
>  (Actually, I suppose it's a function of udev [magic])
> So, I'm looking at:
> man udev
>
> I still don't know what to do to change it, but ...
>
> Well, maybe I should change my signature file to:
>
> Ubuntu is an African word that means, "WOW! Ubuntu is harder than Slackware!".
>
> --
> Ubuntu is an African word that means, "Slackware is too hard for me".
>
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