Change Name of iTunes Hard Drive?

I store all of my iTunes content on an external hard drive. I want to change the name of the hard drive, but I'm worried that this will break iTunes for me. Does anyone know how I can make this change simply and easily without creating problems for iTunes?
I am using iTunes 11.0.2 on a 13" MacBook Air with OS X 10.8.3.

That worked! And I didn't even have to go to iTunes preferences because it figured out the new disk name by the time I went there. Simple and easy. Thank you!

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