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  • Renaming Boot Drive

    Posted by Andrew Commiskey on August 1, 2007 at 3:07 pm

    If you Rename the Boot Drive will it screw up the operating system?
    A friend recieved his computer with his boot drive having a confusing name (he is just learning how to use a mac) and figured I would check before changing it.

    Thanks,
    Drew

    Chaos is the beginning of everything.

    Andrew Commiskey replied 18 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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    August 1, 2007 at 3:22 pm

    It will be fine, just reboot and repair the disk permissions after just to be safe.

  • Greg Serafin

    August 3, 2007 at 12:41 pm

    The only issue I ever had was wit backup.
    Backup worked on a “Macintosh HD” and after renaming created a new set fo the new name.
    On restore it did a restore to a NEW, HIDDEN volume in /volumes called with the old “Macintosh HD”.
    Took me a while to find it and manually move the restored files to where they should be.
    Advice: Do not rename if you have ran a backup!!!

    IQ

  • Andrew Commiskey

    August 4, 2007 at 11:52 pm

    Thanks all Just the info I was looking for.
    Drew

    Chaos is the beginning of everything.

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