https://www.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/1j2wy0w/naming_your_flash_drives_and_external_hdd/
created by kevlarian on 03/03/2025 at 23:38 UTC
2 upvotes, 2 top-level comments (showing 2)
I name my Flash Drives after Amiga Floppies (DF0, DF1, etc) and external HDD after default HDD names (DH0, DH1), etc.
Am I the only one?
Comment by GwanTheSwans at 04/03/2025 at 01:41 UTC
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Well you do you, but it's not something I do...
On actual Amigas at the time I primarily used volume names instead. `Work:`, `Games:`, `MySamples:`, `MyCoolDisk:` and so on anyway. Rather seldom accessed something as `DF0:` or `DH1:` etc. though of course one *could*.
It was a pleasant feature of AmigaOS at the time that you *didn't* always have to refer to something just by which physical drive it happened to be in, like those sad MS-DOS `A:`, `B:`, `C:` drive-letters[1]. You just put a disk in any of your disk drives and referred to the disk by the disk's volume name, not the particular drive it happened to be in that time.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_letter_assignment
So, well, I just similarly give my modern removable media usb keys etc. names / volume labels like `MySamples` or the like too?
Depends somewhat on details of your Linux setup but typically nowadays on a desktop Linux box you already have some version of the `udisks`[2] removable storage manager thingy lurking. That may well then mount/automount your usb key with a volume label `MySamples` just at something like `/media/yourusername/MySamples` or similar by default. So again, available at its volume name (or perhaps uuid), and not just precisely which usb bus and port you plugged it into - that would be if anything more annoying than back when we just had 1 to 4 floppy drives not a whole bunch of usb ports...
2: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/udisks/
Comment by 314153 at 04/03/2025 at 19:00 UTC
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In HD Toolbox I use 3 letter names because they are more convenient when using ClickDOS II and DOpus4, on my Workbench they have names like System and Work; removable drives, such as CF cards (A1200) and USB drives are named CF0 and USB, as these are temporary and only needed for transfers and such (using my intranet is viable, but takes more time than sneaker-netting).
Since 90% of the time I use the last version of ClickDOS (on archive.org) it supports 3 letter designations, I find this quick and easy - I've been using it since 1987.
To each their own, I suppose.