Desktop "Disks" menu

[Darrell Kavanagh <darrell darrell org uk>]

Hi, can anyone tell me how to rename entries on the the desktop right
click "disks" (mounting) menu? I've got a DVD-ROM drive which appears in
the menu as "CD-ROM" and a CD writer which appears as "cdrom1". very
confusing for the user. I'd like something like "DVD" for the DVD-ROM
and "CD-R" for the CD writer.

Confusing for me as well, as "cdrom1" seems to come from /etc/fstab, but
I've no idea where "CD-ROM" comes from. Other entries on the disks menu
(e.g. the dos mount and digital camera) take their names from fstab, as
I'd expect. It is possible to change the "cdrom1" entry by changing 
fstab and the device symbolic link/mountpoint to another name, but doing 
the same to the "cdrom" fstab entry (which ends up as "CD-ROM" on the 
disks menu) is only temporary until next reboot. Redhat's Kudzu hardware 
detection utility seems to have something to do with it, but if I remove 
the kudzu option from fstab, all sorts of strange things happen with the 
permissions to mount disks, etc.

I'm sure with enough messing around I could get what I wanted by 
manipulating fstab and the /dev symbolic links and the mountpoints, but 
it would seem simpler to change the default Disks menu entries. However, 
I've searched the internet (and the files on my machine) in vain to find 
where the menu labels are stored.

Could someone please explain how this works?

My system is Redhat 8.0 (Gnome 2, etc)

Many thanks,

Darrell