I have a secondary internal HDD to store auxiliary data. I want to give it a better name. How do I do it?
Renaming a Hard Drive
terminal;hard disk
For FAT16 and FAT32 partitions, use mlabel from the mtools package or dosfslabelMethod 1# using dosfslabel ( As @Macro suggested )Umount Partition sudo umount <device>Set Label using :sudo dosfslabel <device> labelMethod 2# using mtoolsInstall package using sudo apt-get install mtoolsunmount the external drive, Partitions generally need to be unmounted before you can fiddle with them, so unmount the partition of the device you want to change the label for: sudo umount <device>where device name can be /dev/sdbx, you can find in sudo fdisk -lCheck the current labelsudo mlabel -i <device> -s ::Note that we're using the special :: drive which allows us to specify the device descriptor on the command line; otherwise we'd have to edit ~/.mtoolsrc to assign a drive letter. Change the labelsudo mlabel -i <device> ::<label>Reference Link