I’m wanting to rename my startup drive from the standard Macintosh HD to something personalized. I’ve been using this Mac for a couple years now. By doing that will I cause any issues in running it or should it be fine?
Renaming it will not cause a problem.
Having said that I would avoid special characters other than a dash or underscore. The same as naming/renaming files & folders.
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WayneG’s warning is probably good guidance to be on the safe side, but I can confirm that I’ve renamed my HD multiple times and it has had zero noticeable effect on anything.
I think the only thing you’d need to be aware of is if you use any AppleScripts which include a path which includes the name of your hard drive. Nothing else uses it, as far as I am aware.
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When I replaced my spinning drive with a SSD I changed the name to Macintosh SSD. Been that way for years.
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In our household we have a naming scheme for Macs, their internal hard disks and the external hard disks. We never leave them as Macintosh HD. I had a drive named after an Icelandic volcano with umlauts in the name. No issues.
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Thanks everyone. There was an old stack overflow thread that made me unsure. I think this is why someone warned against it.
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