The name of my hard drive has changed on strange letters or some words chosen by random.

I have iMac (2011) with OS X Lion 10.7.4, and I noticed that name of my hard drive has been changing on strange letters or some words chosen by random. It's quite strange. I have other apple computers and I have never experienced such things. I can't find any logical explanation of this "activity". Sometimes it happens after sleeping mode, sometimes there is no activity from my side or from OS. How to fix it? What should I do?
Update: I don't have any cats or other animals that can walk on my keyboard. This is definitely not because of "accidentally pressed an icon of my HD and then pressed some keys" issue.
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