Strange Mount After Clean Install of Feisty

cj debiani386 at gmail.com
Mon May 14 21:38:27 UTC 2007


Is this a SATA or IDE drive?
(i have noticed with some, but very few sata drives, ubuntu will see 
them as SDA's instead of HDA/HDB's (excuse my capitolizing))
--cj
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I recently installed 7.04 (not upgraded) on my box.
>>
>> I have two HDs - /dec/hda (or /dev/sda as it is mounted now) and /dev/hdc.
>>
>> Both are IDE HDs. During the installation I told it to use the entire HDA
>> disk and expected to be asked about the mount points later. It didn't ask. I
>> had to manually add a line to mount my second disk (now /dev/sdc5) where all
>> my data is. I created a dir by the name of Data under the root fs (/Data)
>> and added a line similar to the one mounting the root fs (/) pointing to my
>> second HD.
>>
>> Now I have a link on my desktop called "/home" and when I check it's
>> properties it shows up as mounted on /Data...
>>
>> Looking at my /home/<username>/Desktop dir shows as empty...
>>
>> Here's my /etc/fstab. The line I added is the last one. I don't know how to
>> find the UUID for my partition...
>>
>> Is there a GUI way to mont it instead?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
>> #
>> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
>> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
>> # /dev/hda1
>> UUID=5190a552-ab5a-4f41-bdc9-6ee3799cd1df /
>> ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
>> # /dev/hda5
>> UUID=237e9c63-7cbe-455c-8d99-ff0636b268d6 none
>> swap    sw              0       0
>> /dev/hdb        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
>> /dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
>> /dev/sdb5       /Data           ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro
>>           0       0
>>
>>
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