Adding a drive

[Basil Chupin]

On 05/04/10 10:01, Steve Morris wrote:
> On 04/04/10 18:17, Jonas Norlander wrote:
>> 2010/4/3 Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>:
>>> On 03/04/10 03:58, Jonas Norlander wrote:
>>>> 2010/4/2 Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>:
>>>>
>>>>> I am using Kubuntu Karmic.
>>>>>
>>>>> If I was to add another HD to my system, how do I go about doing this
>>>>> especially formatting it and giving it a mount point for fstab 
>>>>> (eg, /data)?
>>>>>
>>>>> As far as I can see there is no partitioner in Kubuntu. (I had to 
>>>>> format a
>>>>> flash memory stick yesterday and had to use another distro to do 
>>>>> this, but
>>>>> can this be done in Kubuntu?)
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for any advice.
>>>>>
>>>>> BC
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> You can install partitionmanager which is a KDE program or gparted
>>>> which is a Gnome program. Both let you manipulate partition and format
>>>> them.
>>>>
>>>> / Jonas
>>>>
>>> Many thanks!
>>>
>>> Is partionmanager the same as the one used during the installation of
>>> Kubuntu when the HDs are recognised, formatted and the information
>>> written to fstab or is there another application which the installer
>>> uses? In asking this I am asking if after partitioning and formatting a
>>> drive do I then to manually add it to fstab or will partitionmanager do
>>> this for me (as it is done during the original installation stage of
>>> Kubuntu)?
>> I don't think they are the same and if I remember right you have to
>> manually edit your /etc/fstab. But thats not that difficult, check the
>> partitions UUID with the blkid command and add something like this to
>> your fstab: UUID=f2433f1a-5b15-4d50-976e-30e45eeeae11 /
>> ext4    relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
>> See "man fstab" for more information.
>>
>> / Jonas
>>
> Just a comment on this process. I is my experience that the only safe 
> method of mounting a partition is to ensure that at format time a 
> label is specified for the partition and use the label in the fstab 
> entry, uuid is terribly unreliable.
> Uuid is unreliable as a partition identifier because moving a 
> partition changes the uuid, deleting and recreating a partition in the 
> same physical place changes the uuid and an inplace resize of a 
> partition changes the uuid.
>
> regards,
> Steve

Ah, a most interesting point. I have taken a note of this, thanks very much.

BC



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