Move default 'home' and some opinions

[Michael Hirsch]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Alan Dacey Sr. <GrokIt at ajinfosearch.com> wrote:
> 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?

My bad!  I think I was testing in the wrong window.  That must have
been running in an old RHEL box, not my trusty kubuntu laptop.  Oops,
and apologies.

Seems to work fine in the right window.  :)

Michael