Changing hard drive alias names?

Any issues with changing the name of the harddrive aliases that display
on the desktop?

You can name the volumes anything you want. Thus I have one drive with a single partition named "TigerBU" and a second drive with two partitions, named "Noobix" and "OXey"--each volume appears on the Desktop. If I wanted to rename one I would click on the name and then type a new one. I always give each partition its own distinct name, never heard of a problem and I've certainly never had one.
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