I can’t manage to sort my hard drives in the order I want. I’ve tried every possible and imaginable way… alphabetical, numerical, I even went into GNOME Disks and played with all the labels and settings. Online tutoring doesn’t work either… I don’t know if it’s a bug, but I’ve never encountered this problem before. I need help.
Thanks in advance.
This is most likely not a hardware issue, but a change in how GNOME Files handles drive ordering in the sidebar.
Recent versions seem to sort mounted drives using internal device names or mount order instead of the filesystem labels, so changing labels in Disks may no longer affect the order like it did before.
A few things you can try:
1. Reboot after changing labels, in case the old names are cached.
2. Check if the drives are mounted automatically from /etc/fstab, because mount order can matter.
3. Mount them to custom folders such as /mnt/Data, /mnt/Backup, etc.
4. Open those folders in Files and press Ctrl+D to add bookmarks. That gives you a cleaner custom sidebar layout.
5. If custom ordering is essential, Nemo or Dolphin offer more flexibility than GNOME Files.
So in short: probably not a bug with your disks, but a limitation/change in Nautilus sidebar behavior
Thanks for the explanations and solutions, but unfortunately nothing I’ve tried works for me, or I just don’t have the knowledge to apply them correctly.
I changed the names again and played with the labels in Gnome Disks, I even tried to make all disks mount automatically, but it still doesn’t work.
The idea of putting them in bookmarks is nice, and in the list I can organize them however I want just by dragging them, but there’s no option to mount them, so I still have to keep the other disk list below, which is just a mess…
I tried Dolphin, but I don’t understand why sometimes Dolphin and Gnome Files don’t give me the same result in Properties when I check the size of the same file…
It looks like I just discovered another problem…
As for /etc/fstab, I can see the file with what must be an entry for each disk, but my knowledge stops there…
Why make such a basic feature so complicated 