Possibly Offtopic - Re: Second Hard Drive issue

[Billie Walsh]

On 05/16/2016 10:35 AM, Alan Dacey (grokit) wrote:
> Seems that all the good advice and the not so clear advice was a bit 
> confusing so I am writing this as a short fstab manual.

I appreciate your attempt to help, really. I appreciate everyone’s help. 
But, I need to explain something. Back about 2000 I decided I had had 
enough of Windows trying to be my nanny. If I click on an icon I want it 
to run the associated program not ask me if I want it to run that 
program. Just get on with running it. As I relate to an average "Linux 
User" I'm a complete dumbass. Yes I admit it. When it comes to things 
that most of you do every day I have no clue. When I do a clean install 
I just let the installer do whatever it does. All I care about is if it 
runs when the installation is complete. For the most part that's just 
what I get. An operating system that just works. I'm not an "average 
Linux user". In reality I'm an average Windows user. The major 
difference is I prefer to use Linux.

When the first replies came in on this thread fstab was mentioned. I had 
no idea what was being said. I had to google just to find out what fstab 
was and what it does.

SO, back when I started using this extra hard drive to store stuff on I 
deleted the partition(s) that was(were)  there and made a new one. Now I 
had to access it. Somewhere over the years I had learned that most 
everything in the computer could be located in Root > Dev. The problem 
is most of what's in there is written in Martian, or at least might as 
well be as far as I'm concerned. I did find it in Root > Media using 
Dolphin. How it got there and why I have no clue. That's just where I 
found it listed. A totally blank hard drive, partitioned and formatted. 
There was no "Home" or any other normal Linux directory. I created a 
directory Billie0W and using Dolphin I moved all my websites from the 
primary drive to the secondary. All was good. THEN, in an update 
somewhere along the line something changed. All of a sudden the, what I 
recently learned, was the uuid started showing up in the path to my 
files and bookmark links stopped working as they always had.

OK, so now you know why I REALLY appreciate everyone's help.

I see it every day on the various lists. An update comes in and breaks 
something. Just Linux life I guess. *<]:oD

One thing I never quite get is why "they", whoever "they" is, say that 
Linux isn't ready for prime time. If an average idiot like me can use 
it, mostly, successfully for 16 years how is it not ready.

-- 
Fast is fine, but accuracy is final.
You must learn to be slow in a hurry.
-Wyatt Earp-

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