[X4U] Renaming Boot HD - repercussions?

[Ronald Steinke]

On 28 August, 2006, at 9:33:59, Mike wrote:

> 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?

You had better check that "Jen's HD" may have  been shared with a  
network. If it was shared, you will have to re-establish sharing  
privileges after changing the name.