f8dy so i’m reformatting my drive and repartitioning
f8dy what should i name it
jcgregorio this is some weird mac thing isn’t it
f8dy yeah we don’t have drive letters
f8dy it’s not that weird
f8dy you named your debian box didn’t you
jcgregorio true
jcgregorio you know it’s gotta be either “blackjack” or “hookers”
f8dy lol
f8dy i’m gonna build my own mac, with blackjack and hookers
f8dy in fact, forget the mac
f8dy well i’m taking a bunch of screenshots in the next few days
f8dy so let’s go with blackjack
“so let’s go with blackjack”
Wuss. :)
Comment by Evan — Wednesday, October 22, 2003 @ 3:59 pm
Do Mac’s allow ampersands in file-names, ala blackjack&hookers?
Comment by Conan — Wednesday, October 22, 2003 @ 4:22 pm
Mac OS X allows among others the following characters: ? * | / \ ( ) ” & # = ;
But then the system has two file systems, I doubt the underlying virtual file system of OSX allows any characters that aren’t allowed in Unix/Linux.
Comment by liorean — Wednesday, October 22, 2003 @ 5:02 pm
Mark’s comment filtering dropped the Less Than and Greater Than characters. Oh well, add them to the list. In fact, the only character that I’ve found that isn’t allowed so far is :
Comment by liorean — Wednesday, October 22, 2003 @ 5:05 pm
If you need a nice, geeky OS X drive icon, may I suggest: http://www.ex.org/articles/2002/2001.12.13-rev_anime-us-black_jack.html
Comment by misuba — Wednesday, October 22, 2003 @ 5:13 pm
Ha! Futurama references. I love it.
http://www.robotology.org/CGEF/Multimedia/EpisodeSounds/1ACV02/24.mp3
http://www.robotology.org/CGEF/Multimedia/EpisodeSounds/1ACV02/31.mp3
Comment by Matt — Wednesday, October 22, 2003 @ 5:28 pm
Can I still make a suggestion?
I’ve always wanted to name a disk Orpheus. It’s almost appropriate in this case, since it’s descending into the underworld (being formatted) in search of what it loves (being stable, uncorrupted and having free space) and it’ll keep it, as long as it doesn’t look back (roll back somehow, or corrupt itself).
Okay, so the analogy falls flat at the end, but I still think Orpheus is a good name.
Comment by Phil Ulrich — Wednesday, October 22, 2003 @ 5:31 pm
My disks are named Cortana ,Durandal and Joyeuse. Geek points if you identify the names.
Comment by Johan Svensson — Wednesday, October 22, 2003 @ 5:35 pm
Is that BlackJack as in the card game or like a small leather sack filled with lead shot? ;-)
Comment by Jeffrey J. Hoover — Wednesday, October 22, 2003 @ 5:36 pm
Mine’re like Dim450, Ghost1, and other such utilitarian things.
I consider that more geeky than obscure culture references, but definitely not as funny.
Comment by Anonymous — Wednesday, October 22, 2003 @ 6:33 pm
I named my HD after my cat, who is still alive.
Boy, that sure is lame.
Bah.
Comment by Ryan — Wednesday, October 22, 2003 @ 7:15 pm
Wintermute and Neuromancer here.
Comment by Jacob — Wednesday, October 22, 2003 @ 7:18 pm
Named hard drives are great - as are Futurama references. Why not name it ‘Bender’ then?
I have a ‘Zoidberg’ drive sitting on my desktop very happily.
And don’t forget the icons to go with it: http://www.xicons.com/details/133.html
Comment by Sven-S. Porst — Wednesday, October 22, 2003 @ 7:21 pm
Well, my laptop is named `torg’ and my desktop is named `zadok’.
You may be an übernerd if you understand how those are related.
Comment by kami — Wednesday, October 22, 2003 @ 7:21 pm
I have two main hard-drives. One is called “Stanley”, as in “What’s the plan, Stan?”. It’s my fifth generation of Stanley (and Mac).
My other HD is a PC and is called, er, “Percy”.
Does anyone give their drive a female name?
Comment by David — Wednesday, October 22, 2003 @ 7:22 pm
Why not C:\?
Crazy Mac users….sheesh. :)
Comment by Anonymous — Wednesday, October 22, 2003 @ 8:21 pm
Mine used to be “Straylight,” in keeping with the Gibson theme. Now it’s “gaia”
Comment by Adam Rice — Wednesday, October 22, 2003 @ 9:09 pm
Hmm. I must be stunningly boring. I go with size and OS, so I end up with drives called things like 10GB-OS9 and 40GB-dual. I just installed 120GB-OSX. It’s fighting back.
Ah, pshaw, I just checked my laptop. The partitions are called “I Love Mac” and “I Hate Mac” (OS X & OS 9 respectively). So much for my rational naming scheme.
I always thought “Gertrude” would be a good name for a hard drive.
Comment by Fred — Wednesday, October 22, 2003 @ 9:55 pm
Well mine is called “Macintosh HD”. I suppose I should change it to something cool so I can be unique, like everyone else.
Comment by Nate — Wednesday, October 22, 2003 @ 10:24 pm
My old G3, having recently been relegated to server status, is merely named the domain name (djwudi.com).
My new G5, though, is currently named Quicksilver (G5 = quick, aluminum case = silver, plus I’m reading Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver at the moment). I even found a mercury-metallic-ish set of settings for the Fluid screensaver to use, just to keep the theme going.
My PC is named BitchBox. I haven’t even turned it on in the past month.
Comment by Michael Hanscom — Wednesday, October 22, 2003 @ 10:38 pm
I used to have a hard drive named Prom Night. The night I formatted it, I guess could have been out losing my virginity or something.
Comment by Dane Carlson — Wednesday, October 22, 2003 @ 10:50 pm
To the anonymous commenter: that’s nothing. Mine are named /dev/hda and /dev/hdb. (Unless I’m in Windows, in where hdb (C:\) is labeled `70GiB’.)
Comment by kami — Wednesday, October 22, 2003 @ 11:56 pm
/dev/hda and /dev/hdb. Sadly, I am a geek.
If I DID name my drives however, I would name them Valinor and Synecdoche.
Comment by Jonathan Weed — Thursday, October 23, 2003 @ 12:16 am
When in Windows, I name my volumes with semiwhimsical names that start with the same letter as the volume. For example:
C: : chocobo
D: : dodongo
My OS X machine has two volumes named “alpha” and “beta”. Yes, this is horribly unimaginative. Perhaps I’ll rearrange things when I flatten the machine for 10.3.
Comment by Nathan Sharfi — Thursday, October 23, 2003 @ 1:56 am
Ah Chocobo! My HD is named Cloud.
Comment by Matthew McVickar — Thursday, October 23, 2003 @ 2:10 am
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/09/19/the_third_son ?
Comment by Jesper — Thursday, October 23, 2003 @ 6:57 am
Macs I Have Loved: Beethoven, pandora, Commander Data (uh huh), Petronius, Andronicus, and “The Gibson,” as in that very awful movie.
Comment by Raena — Thursday, October 23, 2003 @ 7:49 am
on bigbrother: pooh, tigger
on roo: firetruck, andrea
on t40: liv, data
on teacosy2k: smurf, firetruck
Comment by Simon — Thursday, October 23, 2003 @ 9:11 am
I have one drive called Gnarus and another called “Seamonster Potluck” (sort of an inside joke spawned at my monthly potluck… if anyone’s in Burlington VT on the third thursday of any month drop me a line).
I used to have a drive called 55 because I hated Sammy Hagar so much. That was a little while back. Guess I’m lame too.
g
Comment by g — Thursday, October 23, 2003 @ 9:13 am
My HD name is “uberdisk” and this other one it’s called Mac OS 9.
Comment by mini-d — Thursday, October 23, 2003 @ 9:36 am
Along with nathan, for us geeks in the pc world, naming the drive comes in real handy-like. my drives Lola, milquetoast, zebu, haveACookie, and Salvation got renamed Cola, Dilquetoast, Eebu, Faveacookie, and Galvation once I realized that it made accessing them easier. Pull up a my computer in win, press the c key, it automatically goes to the ‘c’ drive.
–refe
Comment by refe — Thursday, October 23, 2003 @ 10:46 am
beware: if you’re formatting your hard drive as UFS, whatever name you choose will be dropped upon restart, in favor of “/”; furthermore, some applications (notably photoshop and acrobat) won’t run on a HFS+ partition.
HFS+ rocks in a lot of ways (i.e., metadata!), but it’s not case sensitive (which may matter to you).
Comment by louis — Thursday, October 23, 2003 @ 11:29 am
I tend to name my systems after old teachers and professors. I’m afraid my disk labels tend to get labels like ’system’, ’swap’, and ‘user’. Not much fun there.
Comment by Dan — Thursday, October 23, 2003 @ 12:16 pm
My HD is named Argentum - but my PC harddrives are called games, programs, media web etc. Thanks MS, for the ability to change harddrive letters in Win2k…
Comment by liorean — Thursday, October 23, 2003 @ 2:11 pm
I use ‘Byte Me’. Try it, you’ll like it.
Comment by Bill — Thursday, October 23, 2003 @ 6:18 pm
I always name my hard drives from the computers or other weird words in Rudy Rucker novels. I used to name my hard drive “Ralph Numbers” and then it was “GAX.” Now it’s “Limpware.” In anticipation of Panther, I just ordered 2 160Gb drives for a RAID, so I’ve got to come up with a new name. I think this one will be “PhizWiz.” Nah, I think it will still be Limpware, that one’s too darn good.
Comment by Charles — Thursday, October 23, 2003 @ 6:18 pm
My HD is called Blackhole since data on it just disappears never to be seen again.
Comment by The sexiest guy in the universe — Thursday, October 23, 2003 @ 6:29 pm