“so let’s go with blackjack”
Wuss. :)
— Evan 
Do Mac’s allow ampersands in file-names, ala blackjack&hookers?
— Conan
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.
— liorean
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 :
— liorean
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
— misuba
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
— Matt
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.
My disks are named Cortana ,Durandal and Joyeuse. Geek points if you identify the names.
Is that BlackJack as in the card game or like a small leather sack filled with lead shot? ;-)
Mine’re like Dim450, Ghost1, and other such utilitarian things.
I consider that more geeky than obscure culture references, but definitely not as funny.
— Anonymous
I named my HD after my cat, who is still alive.
Boy, that sure is lame.
Bah.
— Ryan
Wintermute and Neuromancer here.
— Jacob
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
Well, my laptop is named `torg’ and my desktop is named `zadok’.
You may be an übernerd if you understand how those are related.
— kami
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?
— David
Why not C:\?
Crazy Mac users….sheesh. :)
— Anonymous
Mine used to be “Straylight,” in keeping with the Gibson theme. Now it’s “gaia”
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.
— Fred
Well mine is called “Macintosh HD”. I suppose I should change it to something cool so I can be unique, like everyone else.
— Nate
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.
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.
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’.)
— kami
/dev/hda and /dev/hdb. Sadly, I am a geek.
If I DID name my drives however, I would name them Valinor and Synecdoche.
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.
Ah Chocobo! My HD is named Cloud.
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/09/19/the_third_son ?
— Jesper
Macs I Have Loved: Beethoven, pandora, Commander Data (uh huh), Petronius, Andronicus, and “The Gibson,” as in that very awful movie.
— Raena
on bigbrother: pooh, tigger
on roo: firetruck, andrea
on t40: liv, data
on teacosy2k: smurf, firetruck
— Simon
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
— g
My HD name is “uberdisk” and this other one it’s called Mac OS 9.
— mini-d
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
— refe
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).
— louis
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.
— Dan
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…
— liorean
I use ‘Byte Me’. Try it, you’ll like it.
— Bill
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.
— Charles
My HD is called Blackhole since data on it just disappears never to be seen again.