(I'm not sending this out to the list, as I am not completely sure that my surmises are correct here.)
I believe that if you label the partitions, they will show up with the labels, just as USB sticks do. I also believe that you can use gparted to label the partitions. I do not believe that labelling the partitions will affect their behaviour under Windows.
Just remember than any attempt to modify partitions can cause damage to your system.
peter
On 01/31/2016 07:40 AM, Ron Leach wrote:
List, good afternoon,
I've just finished upgrading a dual-booting Fedora/Windows netbook from F14/XFCE to F23. I haven't been able to solve a minor difficulty, to do with the naming of the Windows partitions.
In F23 I see a (new to me) feature that the Windows partitions automatically appear in both the File Manager, and on the desktop. Previously in F14, I had set mount points for the Windows partitions, and I'd named the mount points WinC and WinD, for example, so that when I needed to access one or the other I could easily see which one to mount. In F23 now, though, the windows partitions are visible already as (for example) '21 GB Volume' and '63 GB Volume'. I can not find how or where these names are assigned, hoping that I could have replaced those names with a named mountpoint.
In F14, I'd set my preferred partition mountpoint names in fstab, but in F23 these partitions are not listed in fstab - despite the partitions already being visible on the desktop and in the File Manager. I'd prefer that F23 didn't present these partitions with those names, and instead let the partitions exist in fstab where they can be mounted onto more meaningful names. (I would still wish to benefit from F23's recognition of 'removable' media which, I think, might be a mechanism that F23 is using to present these Windows partitions.)
Is there a way to prevent F23 using anything but fstab to create any visibility of these (fixed, not removable) partitions? (I could just add these to fstab myself, but I have not done so yet because I wasn't sure whether doing so would mess things up without also removing whatever mounting system F23 is using for them at the moment, eg particularly on mounting or on writing anything to the partition if 2 mount points were existing/active.)
It's a minor problem but I'd be grateful for any suggestions. (It would be handy anyway to understand the present mounting arrangement, as well.)
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