Mounting partitions

[Luis Paulo]

alan
A bit off subject, but as I think you already have your answers, I hope no
one minds

>From times to times I take a look at this document
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard <http://www.pathname.com/fhs/>
and try to figure where to put something new on the tree - and many times I
can't find a stright solution :)

I guess /var seems to be the right place for vm files (its variable data)
For example, libvirt stores its vm's on /var/lib/libvirt/

Not very important, I could agree, but you may consider mounting your
partition on something like /var/virtual

Regards
Luis

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:

> alan duval wrote:
> > I have installed a larger 500G HD, and used Gparted to make 4
> > partitions.
> > Partition 1 for Ubuntu9.04
> > Partition2 for Swap
> > Partition3 for Home
> > Partition4 for Virtual operating systems
> >
> > I then transferred Ubuntu and my Home partition from my smaller disk
> >  to the larger using Acronis.
> > However Ubuntu then couldn't mount the new Virtual partition. Message
> > said
> > "Can't find sda7 (my virtual partition) in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab".
> > I looked at fstab but didn't know what values to put for sda7.
>
> You can find out the UUID of the partitions with the command
>
> ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid
>
> in a terminal. There should be a line like this:
>
> d7351921-3fb9-48b5-a5ae-799bbbbd682d -> ../../sda7
>
> The name of the link is the UUID for the partition /dev/sda7 and you can
> use it in your fstab. It should be something like
>
> UUID=d7351921-3fb9-48b5-a5ae-799bbbbd682d /Virtual ext3 relatime 0 0
>
> where you replace the UUID with the one found by the command above. Then
> use the command
>
> sudo mount -a
>
> and the new fstab entry should be used.
>
> > I then opened mtab and it looked simpler, so I added the line:
> > /dev/sda7 /Virtual ext3 rw,relatime 0 0
> > which is similar to the line for sda6
> >
> > This then loaded my Virtual partition in the media folder and I am
> >  able to use it but I notice that the line I inserted in mtab has
> >  disappeared.
> >
> > Although this works I doubt that I have followed accepted practice.
>
> Well, it is your system after all and you are free to do with it
> whatever you want. :)
>
> But the right file to change is always fstab and not mtab which is used
> by the system to list the actually mounted partitions.
>
>
> Nils
>
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