# Posibility of changing name of /data partition

**URL:** <https://hub.mender.io/t/posibility-of-changing-name-of-data-partition/597>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Tags:** yocto, sumo, nxp\
**Created:** [May 21, 2019, 1:08pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/posibility-of-changing-name-of-data-partition/597 "2019-05-21T13:08:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ajithpv](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/ajithpv/32/728_2.png) [@ajithpv](https://hub.mender.io/u/ajithpv)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 1:08pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/posibility-of-changing-name-of-data-partition/597/1 "2019-05-21T13:08:29Z")

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Because of some formal reasons, we would like to change the name of the `/data` partition to `/conf`.

Hence, we would like to know whether this is possible? Also, what is the recommended way to change the `/data` partition name?

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**Author:** ![mirzak](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/mirzak/32/2056_2.png) [@mirzak](https://hub.mender.io/u/mirzak)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/posibility-of-changing-name-of-data-partition/597/2 "2019-05-21T14:45:36Z")

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Should definitely be possible and we do not have any clear guidelines how to do it though.

But a quick list of things to do is:

- update mountpoint in fstab
- update /var/lib/mender/ symlink to point to /conf instead of /data

And that should be it 🙂

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**Author:** ![danie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/danie/32/620_2.png) [@danie](https://hub.mender.io/u/danie)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 5:17am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/posibility-of-changing-name-of-data-partition/597/3 "2020-10-29T05:17:51Z")

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> [@mirzak](#):
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> update mountpoint in fstab

Could you please elaborate a bit more on updating the mount point in `fstab` to include partition names in `sdimg`?