Renaming APFS boot volume

[Taz Mangus]

I just did a restart, held down option key just to check, and:
My startup disk still has the old name, "No Name"!!!
To recap; The disk shows up with its new name, "STARTDISK" in the controlpanel, Disk Utilities, Finder and applications, but NOT at startup w/option key!

I must say somewhat disturbing.
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Thanks for re-verifying. Good to know that yours acts the same as mine. Not that that is necessarily a good thing ?

Would you submit a bug report to Apple about this. I did the other day.

 

[mikzn]

an update . . . CCC version 5.1.18

I am now wondering if the conversations we had on this thread had anything to do with this thread ? APFS Bug in macOS 10.15.5 Catalina Impacts the Creation of Bootable Backups

At any rate - FWIW - there is a new CCC update to version 5.1.18 (build 6004)

I updated on Catalina and ran my weekly back up and the new version of CCC and got a warning asking me to wipe the disk (my back up done above in this thread) and then reformat again to APFS - so even though the back up seemed to run fine - it did not pass on the new version of ccc

You may not have this issue - just thought I would update this thread about the CCC update

 

[Ben J.]

Thanks.
Since the news about 10.15.5 problems seem pretty scary, and I don't really have any problems other than the drive name w/option-startup, I think I'll just stay with 10.15.4 for now. I got the info/update from CCC people too. They seem frustrated w/apple.

 

[futa]

new and late for this post, here is my finding with 10.15.7 after incremental security patch:
1. Finder -or Disk Utilities with rename command- can change the name of an APFS system volume
2. but only if booted from an external disk or partition, DU will automatically update the new name of its APFS files volume

 

[tom@bluesky.org]

@futa Do you see your new names in the Startup Manager (hold option key when starting up)? They really should be there but I cannot make it happen.

 

[futa]

@futa Do you see your new names in the Startup Manager (hold option key when starting up)? They really should be there but I cannot make it happen.

@tom yes indeed, I can see the “new renamed names” rebooting with option key at startup *as long as they were renamed with DU booted from a different physical hard drive* This is replicable. BTW, try erasing the full container that has both, system and data files, not only one of them (or system one alone) and start from scratch

 

[jsamuelson]

Does anyone know if this issue is still present in Big Sur? Thanks!

 

[Zaubermac]

So I found this thread trying to figure out why the !@$! changing the name in Finder/DU did not change the name in Startup Menu. Forgive me for necro threading this, but this the only thread I could find on the subject, and as of this date, current patch 10.15.7, this bug still exists. I haven't tried it in Big Sur yet, I'm still working with software that is hit or miss past Catalina, so I haven't upgraded.

Solution for me: I booted into Recovery, used DU there, and it worked like it's supposed to. This is easier than trying to find a second boot volume, if you don't have one handy!

 

[Ben J.]

Solution for me: I booted into Recovery, used DU there, and it worked like it's supposed to. This is easier than trying to find a second boot volume, if you don't have one handy!

That sounds like a great solution!
I haven't needed to do the opt-startup thing for a while, but I'll check it out one of these days.
Thank you.