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I have 2 versions of Ubuntu-Mate, 18.04 and 20.04.

This is my home directory for 20.04.

/media/andy/81353260-b5a5-4b72-9fce-432e7c620fdc/home/andy/

/etc/fstab: static file system information.




Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a


device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices


that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).




<file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>


/ was on /dev/sda2 during installation


UUID=5b4b2ae5-9aaa-4559-9f41-afb313998c75 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
/swapfile                                 none            swap    sw              0       0

Is there a way I can change the name to a more user friendly and shorter name.

fixit7
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You could create an symlink in the /home directory of your 20.04 installation.

sudo ln -s /media/andy/81353260-b5a5-4b72-9fce-432e7c620fdc/home/andy /home/andy_1804

Then simply access your 18.04 "home" folder by using the shorter path "/home/andy_1804".

Enterprise
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The reason I wanted a shorter name for my home directory is I thought I would have to change some aliases that change directories.

One alias was alias dwn='cd /home/andy/Downloads'

But the actual directory is

/media/andy/81353260-b5a5-4b72-9fce-432e7c620fdc/home/andy/Downloads/

But the alias still works.

fixit7
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Run

  • lsblk to spot which partition holds the 20.04 install

  • blkid /dev/[what you found with sd* or nvme*n*p*] and copy the entire UUID=xx string (including the UUID= part)

  • mkdir whatever folder name you want in the /media/andy folder (ex. mkdir /media/andy/2004)

  • sudo nano /etc/fstab

  • Get at the end of the file and paste what I wrote in the code block and replace the UUID= and /media/andy/ part with yours

UUID=xxxxxx /media/andy/  ext4 rw,nofail,nosuid,nouser,auto,exec user 0 0

See man 5 fstab and man 8 mount to find docs about what I did

Reboot and normally you should be able to cd to your new directory and have your partition mounted

Nicolas Formichella
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I had the same issue. Go to settings and then about. Change the Device Name and voilà.

Nuke Shooter
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