[Solved] Renaming an external hard drive

I've just added a hard drive to my Pi2 running LE 7.0.2 (via a USB-SATA interface, although it's built into the case). It's being detected and running fine, the only problem is it's being given a very long name. I'd like to change that to something more manageable/typeable, but I'm not sure how to go about it.

When I set the drive up (partitioned as ext4 using Minitool Parition Wizard on my PC) I'm sure I gave it a more sensible name, but that doesn't seem to have transferred across. Are there any tools within LE (or that can be installed via add-on) which would allow the drive to be renamed to something more sensible?

Thanks. I'll grab the details later when I get home, and will try it out.

OK, as requested:

blkid
mount

The drive is /dev/sda5, so with the e2label command I've successfully renamed it to KodiHDD. It appears that way under the files list in videos, which is fine.

It still appears in its old long name in /var/media if I look via ssh, but that's no problem.

So all sorted, thanks for the help. e2label was what I was looking for.

Quote from chewitt

the long-name in /var/media should change to the new name when you reboot

Yup, confirmed. So all is good.

Thanks gents.