Move default 'home' and some opinions

[Alan Dacey Sr.]

On Thursday 05 November 2009 07:30:56 am Jonas Norlander wrote:
> 2009/11/5 Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com>
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:48 AM, cherryfinals <cherryfinals at yahoo.com> 
wrote:
> >> Hi Gang!
> >>
> >> I just upgraded my system to 2.5Tb of drive space and 4Gb of ram. Then,
> >> I installed 9.10 from a clean CD. The good news is that everything
> >> worked great after a modicum of fiddling.
> >>
> >> The bad news is that I seem to have misplaced my directions for making
> >> another drive the default home folder. A good friend helped me set it up
> >> last year.
> >
> > The usual way is to mount your new partion at /home.  So if your new
> > drive is /dev/sdb and your desired partition is /dev/sdb1 you would
> > execute mount /dev/sdb1 /home
> > if that works, you make it happen at book by editing your /etc/fstab to
> > make it happen at boot.
> >
> > To be a little more modern, use either a label or UUID for the
> > partition.  I think Kubuntu uses UUIDs so you fstab would look like:
> > UUID=84a46ac2-fb27-4cc0-bb35-fcdb77e140a7 /home      ext3   
> > relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
> >
> > I thought I knew how to find the UUID, but it isn't working.  Someone?
> 
> blkid can be used to print UUID and Label for partitions on connected
>  drives.
> 
> / Jonas
> 

or   ls -al /dev/disk/by-uuid
-- 
Alan

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