Renaming of Volumes '...not supported by backend'

[Alex]

Steps to reproduce:
1) Have hard drive mounted in /media
2) Load Nautilus, and click the "computer" button
3) Selected one of you mounted drives, right click, and select Properties
4) Try to type a new name in the field "Name:", and hit the enter key
5) Watch error pop up:

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The item could not be renamed.

Sorry, couldn't rename "111.8 GB Media" to "home.bk": Operation not supported by backend
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Description: Ubuntu 8.04 64amd
Release: 8.04

Clean install, fully updated. /home was transfered from 7.10 install.

[Alex (alex-public-account+launchpad)]

Issue for ext3, rieserfs, and fat32 at least. Those are the only volumes I have available for test.

[bitumen2003 (bitumensprayer)]

 i agree with this bug

got three internal hard drives 80 gig mounted /media/VirtualMachines, 250 gig mounted /media/HardDrives, 1tb mounted /media/Backups

Displayed on desktop as 76.0 GB Media, 250.7 GB Media, 1000.2 GB Media respectively

used this work around https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RenameUSBDrive
to fix the issue

as I'm writing this the 250.7 GB Media drive is now called VirtualMachines

[chuyler1 (chris-huyler)]

I am also running into this bug. Ubuntu 8.04 with all updates as of Jun 25, 2008.

I inserted a 16MB CompactFlash memory card (filesystem type msdos) and I am unable to rename the volume.

[Alex (alex-public-account+launchpad)]

Three users have reported the bug, it is easily repeatable. Switching to confirmed.

[A. Walton (awalton)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug is a known issue and has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.