Change Partition Name

[Simon Ives]

Hello All.

I've got two partitions on my notebook, one that houses Ubuntu and
another that I use for storage, backups and temporary files. Both
partitions are in ext3 format. To have the second partition mount at
boot I've added the following line to fstab:

/dev/sda2 /media/local_b ext3 defaults 0 0

This mounts the partition fine but I have two newb questions.

1. How do I grant read/write/execute permissions to myself for this
partition?
2. How do I rename the partition? It's current name is "22.8 GB Media"

Thanks in advance.

Simon Ives

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[Owen Townend]

2008/10/9 Simon Ives <si...@simonives.info>:
> Hello All.

Hey,

> I've got two partitions on my notebook, one that houses Ubuntu and
> another that I use for storage, backups and temporary files. Both
> partitions are in ext3 format. To have the second partition mount at
> boot I've added the following line to fstab:
>
> /dev/sda2 /media/local_b ext3 defaults 0 0
>
> This mounts the partition fine but I have two newb questions.
>
> 1. How do I grant read/write/execute permissions to myself for this
> partition?

$ sudo chown -R simon:simon /media/local_b

Change of course if your username is different. This will make
everything on the partition belong to you.

> 2. How do I rename the partition? It's current name is "22.8 GB Media"

$ sudo tune2fs -L MYLABEL /dev/sda2

This would set the label to 'MYLABEL' for that partition.

> Thanks in advance.
> Simon Ives

Hope that helps,
Cheers,
Owen.