renaming startup disk

J

jweijers

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Hello there,

It would be nice to rename my harddisk from "Macintosh HD" into something more sexy.

Can I just rename it or will I get myself into all sorts of trouble?

Jan
 
It's okay to just rename it normally - remember, you're on a Mac - "It Just Works!"*


*Well, at least most of the time.
 
It's just a volume label. You can change it to whatever you like. The UNIX under layer still knows it as '/', despite whatever the volume label is.

You can also change the name from the command line:
diskutil rename / newname
(This is especially handy for changing names of other volumes to begin with a dot, so they will appear invisible to the Finder: diskutil rename /Volumes/swap .swap
 
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