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Questions about changing the name by which the system refers to a device

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How to know the model of the computer from Ubuntu?

I am unable to find my computer model name. I have Ubuntu 12.04. I tried HardInfo and System Monitor, but could not find it. I know this is a noob question, but any help is appreciated.
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Change the "device name" in the details window of System settings

I would like to change my "Device name" as shown in the settings panel. How do I do this?
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How to change hard drive name

my hard drive is located in /media/ronin_cunningham/408242E58242DED2 and I want to change the name 408242E58242DED2 to StorageDevice. How would I do this from the terminal? Thanks.
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How do I set mount point and label for a LUKS encrypted ext. HDD?

Is there an "easy" way of changing the label/name/mount of a LUKS encrypted HDD, and at the same time have it mount at a Label name in /media/user/ ? Atm I have my disk listed twice in Dolhpin: 3,6 TiB Encrypted Drive 3,6 TiB Hard Drive) and…
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Why does an external USB hub show up under different USB bus/port numbers than other devices plugged into the same port?

I'm working on setting up a system where I want to have certain devices always named the same way when they are plugged into certain ports. I originally set up a udev rules file with the devices plugged directly into the computer. So I had rules…
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How to find the device name of an HDD that won't mount?

I have a failing HDD that I want to recover data from, using ddrescue. However, I don't know how to find the device name. When I booted Ubuntu with the disk plugged in, Ubuntu seemed to get stuck trying to read the drive and seemed to be getting…
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How to change my user or computer name which appeares before each command in the terminal window?

Is there any way to change the name which appears before every command line in the terminal window? If so, then how? As shown below, my current one is way too long and takes up a lot of space in each line. $: command not…
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New NIC device naming in 12.10?

I've just discovered after installing Ubuntu 12.10 that there seems to be new device names for eth0...ethX. However, I haven't managed to find any documentation that explains the new naming convention in Ubuntu. Can someone explain what p25p1…
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Is there a way to permanently rename a FTDI TTL to USB Serial Converter

I have a FTDI Chip TTL-232RG I would like to rename to something else, so when I plug it in to any computer, regardless of the distro, it would show up under /dev/tty as the new name. Is this possible? If needed here is the datasheet for the USB…
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How to reliably get the name of a connected USB drive?

I'd like to get (eventually in a systemd script) the device name of a USB drive that is connected (USB stick or an SSD drive). How can I do that reliably ? We can assume that there will be only one drive connected, but we don't know the UUID or…
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Change name of mobile android device

I have 2x HTC EVO Android devices. Both devices show up as Pictures-PC36100. I have to open the folder and then open a picture inside to figure out which phone the folder belongs to. Is there anyway to rename the folders to differentiate between…
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Persistent device naming for Windows 7-partition in Ubuntu

I'd like to give the Windows partition of my Ubuntu installation a persistent device name, so different applications (like the local folder-account of my email software, or my local dropbox client) have access to folders and files on this partition…
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Why is my SDCard reader associated with /dev/sda instead of /dev/mmcblk0 and my main SSD with /dev/sdb?

After installing Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on my Asus EP1501P, I found out my SDCard reader was associated with /dev/sda instead of /dev/mmcblk0 and my main SSD with /dev/sdb : $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sd[ab] Disk /dev/sda: 59,9 GiB, 64289243136 bytes, 125564928…
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What is dev-fuse.device and why does it extend boot time?

Trying to see if I could speed up my system boot I ran systemd-analyze plot > bootplot.svg . Everything seems normal except for dev-fuse.device that starts at 7.7 sec and then shows as activating until the entire boot process completes at 24.1 sec.…
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Terminal Username

So I am new to Linux and whenever I open up my terminal, my username is gansaikhan@gansaikhan: ; So my question is how can I change this terminal username to something like maybe gansaikhan@ubuntu: ... Thanks,
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