Swapping partitions WAS: Please help new hard drive install

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Thu, 12/18/08, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Swapping partitions WAS: Please help new hard drive install
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Thursday, December 18, 2008, 2:03 AM
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:08 AM, Leonard Chatagnier
> <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net>wrote:
> 
> >
> > --- On Thu, 12/18/08, Knapp
> <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com>
> > > Subject: Swapping partitions WAS: Please help new
> hard drive install
> > > To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for
> general discussions" <
> > ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > > Date: Thursday, December 18, 2008, 12:09 AM
> > > OK, I am a bit lost.
> > > I have 2 copies of my partitions one on drive sda
> (old one)
> > > and one on sdb
> > > the new one. I want to change my root partition
> to be the
> > > one on the new
> > > drive but both must be labeled / right? Also
> there is no
> > > uuid for the new
> > > partition, as best as I can tell because it is
> not mounted,
> > > so how do I get
> > > the id? I could use a label / but then how would
> it know
> > > which one to use?
> > > Anyway, as I said, I am lost!
> > > Thanks for all the help so far.
> > >
> > > sba7 is the old one
> > >
> > > sdb6 is the new one, if that helps any.
> > >
> > > Thanks all!
> > >
> > Hello Doug,
> >
> > I don't know or if others know just what
> you're getting at.
> > Let me see if I can get you started so someone more
> expert
> > than I may help. You have 2 drives on the machine and
> you
> > want your root / on the second drive. Do you have an
> OS
> > installed on the 2nd drive or at least a file system?
> You
> > can't just go assigning a "/" directory
> on a partition
> > that I know of; installing an operating system such as
> > using and alternate or live CD will do it and perhaps
> if
> > you partition the sdb drive and assign a file system,
> ext3,
> > there may be a way to give it a "/"
> directory, but I don't
> > know; just a thought. if it could be done, you'd
> probably
> > have to copy your / dir from sda1 to sdb1 and tell
> your
> > OS where to look for the new /.  So, why don't you
> tell the list just
> > why you want to do this, exactly what you did to
> partition
> > and setup the sdb drive and anything else related you
> might
> > think of. It's certainly simpler to have the OS on
> one drive.
> > Leonard Chatagnier
> > lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> >
> 
> Thanks for the reply, sorry if that was not clear.
> 
> I have 2 drives that are copies of each other. They both
> have a fully
> working linux on them. The full system is running off of
> sda and I want to
> make fstab now use sdb but just for the root partition.
> Perhaps looking at
> the first part of the thread would help.
> 

I think Rashkae has answered your request just prior to your reply.
I did read your post several times and still don't know why you
want to run / on sdb and swap and home on the other. But it's
your choice of course. Hope Rashkae has the answer for you.
> 

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net