Bug 326748

Summary:	No easy way to distinguish different storage devices in many cases
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Ruslan Kabatsayev <b7.10110111>
Component:	panels: places	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kdeu, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	16.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Ruslan Kabatsayev 2013-10-27 16:11:18 UTC

Suppose you have two 250G disks: for example, one Maxtor STM3250310AS and another Seagate ST3250823AS. Both are of the same capacity and are displayed in Dolphin as "232.9 GiB Hard Drive". Now suppose you know them by vendor&model. What you have to do to open the one you need is
a) Trying both and if you're lucky, you guess right at the first time (what if there more than two similar devices?)
b) doing "ls -l /dev/disk/by-id", lookup which one is needed one and "sudo mount ..." it

What I'd want from a file manager is a means of determining which HDD is which. This could be done e.g. making a tooltip which appears on hovering one of them in Places panel. The tooltip would give you some information like "Vendor Model" or, if it's a partition from a multipartition hard drive, "Vendor Model PartitionNumber".
This should also work for non-HDD devices: USB flash drives, mp3 players, etc. Currently one has to guess what a "6.5 GiB Removable Media" corresponds to. If Dolphin can't determine what it is, the user at least could know by vendor/model.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2013-10-27 16:59:16 UTC

See also bug 307883.

Comment 2 Lukas Ba. 2017-01-16 21:32:32 UTC

Start the KDE devicemanager or Gparted and set a label.

Comment 3 Ruslan Kabatsayev 2017-01-17 05:51:11 UTC

(In reply to kdeu from comment #2)
> Start the KDE devicemanager or Gparted and set a label.

That's not a fix. What if the device is not your own? It'd be no good to do any changes on it. And besides, it does always have its id, so setting a label is a crutch to work around bad UI.

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2017-09-02 23:43:57 UTC

Yep, duplicate of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307883. If the device is not your own, it wouldn't be directly attached to your machine. Any locally-attached device can be assigned a label.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 307883 ***