Dolphin partition names

[Roderick Johnstone]

Hi

Fedora 12, x86_64, kde 4.4.5.

I have some unmounted partitions which show up in the Places pane in 
Dolphin labelled with their volume label.

I changed the volume label, but Dolphin still shows them with the old label.

I tried logging out and in again but the partitions still show with the 
old volume labels.

Any suggestions as to how I get Dolphin to show these partitions with 
the new volume labels??

Thanks

Roderick

[Peter G.]

Roderick Johnstone wrote:
> Any suggestions as to how I get Dolphin to show these partitions with
> the new volume labels??

Just a wild guess:

Dolphin likely uses the blkid database to get its names.

You could see man blkid for more information.

In the past, I have sometimes resorted to manually editing 
/etc/blkid/blkid.tab. Be careul not to make any changes that will prevent the 
system from booting, as these UUIDs are also referenced in /etc/fstab and 
/boot/grub/grub.conf. If you do make changes, these files will have to be 
updated, and also you will have to make sure that the changed partitions 
actually have those new labels (see man e2label). Don't give the swap partition 
a new label (unless you know what you are doing), because this produced a 
nightmare of interrelated complications, with suspend/hibernate/resume, 
dracut's initramfs and who knows what else.

[Roderick Johnstone]

On 30/10/10 20:31, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> Roderick Johnstone wrote:
> > Any suggestions as to how I get Dolphin to show these partitions with
> > the new volume labels??
>
> Just a wild guess:
>
> Dolphin likely uses the blkid database to get its names.
>
> You could see man blkid for more information.
>
> In the past, I have sometimes resorted to manually editing
> /etc/blkid/blkid.tab. Be careul not to make any changes that will prevent the
> system from booting, as these UUIDs are also referenced in /etc/fstab and
> /boot/grub/grub.conf. If you do make changes, these files will have to be
> updated, and also you will have to make sure that the changed partitions
> actually have those new labels (see man e2label). Don't give the swap partition
> a new label (unless you know what you are doing), because this produced a
> nightmare of interrelated complications, with suspend/hibernate/resume,
> dracut's initramfs and who knows what else.

Petrus

Thanks for the ideas (and the warnings), but blkid is reporting the new 
labels and /etc/blkid/blkid.tab has the new labels!

I can't think where Dolphin is getting the old labels from. Some cache 
somewhere I guess.

Roderick

[Chris Smart]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Roderick Johnstone  wrote:
> I can't think where Dolphin is getting the old labels from. Some cache
> somewhere I guess.

What does the kernel show?
ls /dev/disk/by-label/

-c

[Roderick Johnstone]

On 02/11/10 22:21, Chris Smart wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Roderick Johnstone  wrote:
> > I can't think where Dolphin is getting the old labels from. Some cache
> > somewhere I guess.
>
> What does the kernel show?
> ls /dev/disk/by-label/

It shows the new labels!

Roderick
> -c

[Roderick Johnstone]

On 03/11/10 16:05, Roderick Johnstone wrote:
> On 02/11/10 22:21, Chris Smart wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Roderick Johnstone   wrote:
> > > I can't think where Dolphin is getting the old labels from. Some cache
> > > somewhere I guess.
> >
> > What does the kernel show?
> > ls /dev/disk/by-label/
>
> It shows the new labels!
>
> Roderick

ok fixed. It needed hal to be restarted.

Thanks for everyone's ideas.

Roderick

[Chris Smart]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Roderick Johnstone  wrote:
> ok fixed. It needed hal to be restarted.

OK, good :-)

-c