Re: Why can't I rename my floppy drive?

On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 10:13 -0700, NoOp wrote:
On 07/29/2008 04:59 AM, Jimmy Montague wrote:
I installed a floppy drive. Nautilus showed the drive (named FLOPPY)
present in the system. To test the drive, I gave it a diskette named
QMOSAIC1. Then I right-clicked the icon and selected "mount". Ubuntu
read the diskette and changed the name of the drive to QMOSAIC1. Now I
can't change the name of the drive back to FLOPPY. Whenever I try,
Nautilus gives me an error:

"Sorry, couldn't rename "QMOSAIC1" to "FLOPPY": Operation not supported
by backend."

What can I do about that?

I tried a terminal window: gksudo nautilus and all of that. The floppy
icon doesn't show up until I put a diskette in it and mount the drive.
When I then try to rename it, Nautilus says it can't rename because the
device is in use.

What can I do about that?

How do I make this machine do what I want it to do?

I never had problems like this in Windoze.



You must also 'unmount' the floppy. Put the floppy back in and
right-click unmount.



Nonsense. If I gksudo or just plain sudo, when the Nautilus window
opens, the result is the same. If I try to rename the drive icon,
Nautilus tells me it can't rename because the device is busy. If I first
unmount the drive, the icon disappears so there's nothing then to
right-click on. The only way I can click on the drive is to mount the
drive and then I can't rename because the device is busy. If I unmount
the drive, the device disappears.


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