Dolphins places

**naja** · April 24th, 2010

Hi
is there a way to rename items in the places-sidebar? i mean the one for mountend harddrives, the names are too long e.g. "X.Z GiB Hard Drive" what cauese them to be scaled down to allow caption to fit in. i would like to make the names smaller e.g. "C" so the icons can be scaled up again.
thanks

**Alan James** · April 25th, 2010

After adding the location to the places panel just right click on the icon and click “Edit.” Change the “description” and it will rename it. Very simple.

**naja** · April 25th, 2010

Hi
thank you for your reply but this does not work on mounted devices only folders imho.

**benerivo** · April 26th, 2010

I think Dolphin looks for a device 'label' to use, and if there isn't one then it just uses the size of the drive to name it by. You can label a drive with...

Code:

e2label <device> <name>

eg.
e2label /dev/sda5 Music

...which has to be done as root, and you can reboot for it to work.

**naja** · May 1st, 2010

hi
thanks for answering but e2label works only on ext2/ext3 drives.
any otherway? maybe editing the fstab file?

**benerivo** · May 1st, 2010

If your drive is ntfs, then you could try ntfslabel as described here...

http://linux.die.net/man/8/ntfslabel

I don't have any ntfs drives so i haven't tried it myself.