Note that depending on your set up, that is if your user home directory is not in the root partition, you may have to update your home directory path in System Preferences. $ /usr/sbin/diskutil rename old newįor example you could do this to change a partition named “Macintosh HD” to My Mac: $ /usr/sbin/diskutil rename "Machintosh HD" "My Mac"Īs you can see you can use quotes in the name. If you try to use a symbol that is incompatible with Mac.
Open up the Terminal app, and enter the following command, replacing “old” with your old name, and “new” with your new desired name. For example, you might name the start-up drive after yourself, and name one of the external hard drives 'Backups 2011.' You can type in numbers and symbols for the new name, but you cannot use a colon (':') or start the name of the hard drive with a period ('.'). In OSX you can also use a command line diskutil tool to rename your partition. Rename MacOS disk partition using command line In the dialog that opens you can easily enter a new name. In Finder click on the name of your computer, which should be at the top of your file tree, find your partition there, and then just right click on it and click Get info. You can simply use the Finder to change the disk partition name. From your Mac’s menu bar, click the Apple logo on the top left. There are multiple ways to rename a disk partition in OSX, and both should work well depending on your situation.
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