Comment 16 for bug 390304

Comment 13 & 14 from Bernhard exposes the thought process that most users go though when trying to relabel. Using gparted or palimpsest to re-label an unmounted disk may not work, since the user may be missing packages like ntfsprogs jfsutils reiserfsprogs xfsprogs, since they are not shipped with the distribution.

Nautilus currently does not support renaming partitions, I am proposing that this changes. If palimpsest or gparted can re-label an unmounted disk, why not have nautilus do the same thing (i.e. call on the same command line programs that palimpsest and gparted use) to re-label disks.

An extra concern I have noticed is that you must *unmount* a disk before renaming in. In my experience you can rename a disk as is, in a mounted/unmounted state (like you could in mac's finder or windows' explorer). If this is a technical limitation, I think the label change can be held on to until the user unmounts the disk or shuts down the system.

If anyone can explain why Mac/Win users can rename a disk while mounted but we have to unmount to rename, please let me know.