Re: Dolphin partition names

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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
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