[X4U] Renaming Boot HD - repercussions?

[Mike]

It shouldn't cause anything to break. That's the beauty of Macs.

The biggest thing you might want to watch out for is AppleScripts or 
any other scripts that use the boot volume name. Those would need to 
be updated to reflect the new volume name.

Mike

At 12:12 PM -0400 8/28/06, Mark Des Cotes wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>We had some employee shifting here and as a result, One of our Mac's 
>is now assigned to a new user. Not a problem, I've created a new 
>User account for this person and everything is fine in that aspect. 
>The question is, what would happen if I renamed the Boot drive? All 
>of our computers have the user's name as the HD (example, my boot 
>drive is named 'Mark's HD'). Dan, the new user, has a computer with 
>a HD titled "Jen's HD" Will anything get screwed up if I rename it 
>Dan's HD?
>
>Mark Des Cotes
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