How to change the name of media device from terminal

Question

I was trying to change the name of my portable HDD from terminal. usually the rename command is used or sometimes mv.

I am getting this error.

/media/dishank$ rename virus\ BOX/ virus_box virus\ BOX/
Search pattern not terminated at (eval 1) line 1.

What is the name of your device here virus\ BOX/ virus_box virus\ BOX/ and what is the new name there? — αғsнιη, Dec 26 '14 at 17:45
Name of my media device is virus BOX/. And i want to change it to virus_box/. — Dishank Jindal, Dec 26 '14 at 17:47

Hannu · Answer 1 · 2014-12-26T21:29:23.220

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man -k label | grep -E 'file|volume'

should print the names of a few relevant shell commands.
Check out the man pages.
You will probably need to prepended with sudo as you attempt to run any of them.

NOTE:
rename - renames multiple files
rm - remove files or directories
mv - move files

edited Dec 26 '14 at 21:29

answered Dec 25 '14 at 18:25

Hannu

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I did used sudo too. It not worked. – Dishank Jindal Dec 26 '14 at 17:21
What should i fill in device section.?? >Hannu – Dishank Jindal Dec 26 '14 at 17:44
I see that you found out. As you did not have file system type nor other info in your initial question, I could not help you there. – Hannu Dec 26 '14 at 21:28
Next time i will keep that in my mind while asking question. But, thanks for helping. Peace. – Dishank Jindal Jan 11 '15 at 13:21

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 26 '14 at 19:29

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I followed following steps:

Need to find the path of media device. mine was /dev/sdc1 (use Gparted to find)
unmount the partition (do not disconnect it physically). ex: sudo umount /dev/sdc1
mine is ntfs so. sudo ntfslabel /dev/sdc1 virus_box and mount back your device.
verify changes through sudo blkid

All is done.

For more info link

edited Dec 26 '14 at 19:29

αғsнιη

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answered Dec 26 '14 at 18:47

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How to change the name of media device from terminal

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