Move default 'home' and some opinions

[Alan Dacey Sr.]

On Thursday 05 November 2009 05:51:18 pm Michael Hirsch wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Alan Dacey Sr. <GrokIt at ajinfosearch.com> 
wrote:
> > 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
> 
> yes, that is what I was going to recommend, but it doesn't work on my
> Jaunty box.  I only have "by-path".
> 
> Anyone know how to enable "by-uuid"?
> 
> -bash-3.00$ ls -al /dev/disk/by-uuid
> ls: /dev/disk/by-uuid: No such file or directory
> -bash-3.00$ ls -al /dev/disk/
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root root   60 Aug 27 08:56 .
> drwxr-xr-x  10 root root 6660 Aug 27 15:01 ..
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  120 Aug 27 08:56 by-path
> -bash-3.00$
> 
> --Michael
> 
This should be created automatically when the system boots.  What does the 
output of 
	blkid
look like?

Do you have a live CD to boot from to make sure it is not your hardware?
-- 
Alan

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