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BollywooD

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Apr 27, 2005
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How can I change the Disk name?
Im not sure how this happened, and it annoys me....
It annoys me everytime i open disk utility
I would like to change the "Mavericks" disk name

I know how to change the "Yosemite" status disk name, but I want to change the Internal disk name

any help would be much appreciated
 

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BollywooD

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Apr 27, 2005
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Hamburg
the name i want to change is not the displayed disk name. but the actual disk name. sorry this probably isn't very clear.

I must have changed it somehow when I was testing Yosemite under Mavericks on a separate partition.
 

Sowelu

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Aug 15, 2008
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I found the answer!
its very simple really:

diskutil cs rename "OldName" newVolumeGroupName

I found the answer here:
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/74104/how-can-i-rename-a-logical-volume-group
I've got the same issue. Disk Utility shows 'Yosemite' for both the LVG and the main drive/partition and I would like to change my SSD's LVG name back to the original name (which was something like 'Samsung 850 Pro SSD'). So, here's a stupid question... If the current LVG name is 'Yosemite' and I want to change it to 'Samsung 850 Pro SSD', would I past in the following command line as is?

diskutil cs rename "Yosemite" Samsung 850 Pro SSD


Thanks!
 

tumas

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Oct 21, 2014
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If the current LVG name is 'Yosemite' and I want to change it to 'Samsung 850 Pro SSD', would I past in the following command line as is?

diskutil cs rename "Yosemite" Samsung 850 Pro SSD


Thanks!

Yes, but i would put it like
diskutil cs rename "Yosemite" "Samsung 850 Pro SSD"
just to be safe with the spaces.

I issued the very same command just a few days ago.
 
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