It was also very handy that you could arbitrarily assign names to folders and have them be treated across the system as a volume name. Got some non-copyprotecte

It was also very handy that you could arbitrarily assign names to folders and have them be treated across the system as a volume name. Got some non-copyprotected software that expects to run from the volume name of the floppy? Copy the contents of the disk into a folder, assign the volume name of the floppy to that folder, and it will most likely just work. If it's a self-booting disk you may also need to copy the contents of some system folders into your actual system folders (c, libs, devs, etc) but other than that, with regards to the filesystem, volume assigns were very powerful (and in OS 2.0 and up you could also chain these assigns across different folders)