Your opinion on the "volume" tag?

Question

The volume tag is currently applied to nine questions:

• Four of them use it to describe mounted disks
• Five of them use it to describe audio sound levels

Tags with multiple meanings are barely more useful than no tag at all.

Any suggestions on which of these should be renamed, and to what?

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Update:

I don't think we need a data-volume tag, as it looks like disk-space is sufficient.

I went through the posts and made some edits:

• Where volume referred to audio levels, I added the already-existing audio tag
• Where volume referred to mounted disks, I added the already-existing hard-drive tag

Once I'd done that, it appeared that Jeff was right that we may not need the volume tag at all, so I removed it from each.

Should volume be added to the blacklist?

Answer 1

I'm not sure this tag needs to exist at all. Would anyone browse just questions with volume ? For what purpose? Under what circumstances?

I think disk and audio are better general tags.

Answer 2

Perhaps break it out to...

• audio-volume (Maybe sound-volume is more common?).
• disk-volume, which isn't very common, but I've seen it used here and there.
• data-volume, which can be used for questions about managing hard drive space.

It would be nice if there was a default we could place via the tag wikis, but 4/5 is too close to call

Answer 3

What are the down sides to allowing 'volume' to be used both ways? If am looking for audio-style volume, then I can search for 'volume'. Then I see that it is ambiguous when I see the results, and I add another tag "audio" to further limit the scope. I hope it's not a knee-jerk reaction that a tag should not have two different but specific meanings (think homonym)