[SWLUG] Renaming a device in Ubuntu

[Mark Summerfield]

On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:45:37 +0000
Jonathan Wright <jonathan at netwrker.co.uk> wrote:
>  On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 14:11:59 +0000, Mark Summerfield wrote:
> > $ df -h
> > dev/sdb1             230G   49G  181G  22% /media/2010_BLACK_
> >
> > $ e2label /dev/sdb1
> > 2010_BLACK
> >
> > It used to be called /media/2010_BLACK but there was an accident and
> > ever since Ubuntu now uses this new name with the underscore at the 
> > end.
> >
> > Is is possible to force Ubuntu to use the original name again?
> 
>  What's
> 
>    ls -ld /media/*
> 
>  The mount points under /media are normally automatically created and 
>  destroyed, but if it still exists (for example after a crash or
> forced power cycle) then it will will need to rename it (and the
> first rename is to add _ to the end).
> 
>  If /media/2010_BLACK exists when there is no drive plugged in, run
> 
>    sudo rmdir /media/2010_BLACK
> 
>  to get rid of it.

Actually it had somehow managed to create a whole tree under there but
rm -rf did the trick.

Thanks!

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