This quick tutorial is going to show you how to change the display name of drives, partitions (under Devices) in the left pane of Nautilus file browser.

Besides Ubuntu 14.04, I have 4 other partitions in my laptop. However, the Nautilus file manager only displays them as “x GB Volume” and I was always annoyed to find out which is which!

See the result first:

Before

After

How to fix it by changing drive label:

1. First make sure all the drives under Devices are unmounted in Nautilus file browser.

2. Search for and install Gparted in Ubuntu Software Center.

3. Launch Gparted. When it opens, do below one by one:

1. Right click on a drive/partition and choose Label
2. On pop-up dialog box, give a name.
3. Click the green check mark button to apply changes.

Re-do step 3 on other partitions and done.