How do I do it? (altering the mount points)

[Basil Chupin]

On 07/05/10 00:21, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 11:33:24PM +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
>    
>> Earlier tonight as an experiment I installed XP and 10.04 on a set of
>> HDs and when installing 10.04 I deliberately made typo mistakes in the
>> partitioner.
>>
>> For example, I put in /Windows/D as the mount point instead of using the
>> lower case /windows/D.
>>
>> Of course, fstab now shows that this partition is mounted as /Windows/D,
>> and there is a corresponding entry in the file directory tree of Windows/D.
>>
>> But what I want is to have this directory tree to show in local case -
>> windows/D - with fstab also showing 'windows' in lower case.
>>
>> Using PartedMagic I went in and altered all the capitalised references
>> to Windows to lower case in fstab and the directory tree.
>>
>> Then I tried to reboot the system - but it wouldn't.
>>      
> (I would consider that a bug in Ubuntu: non-essential filesystems
> prevent boot.)
>
>    
>> It doesn't boot because I think that the device map is now wrong and
>> with grub expecting to see Windows and not windows in fstab (I guess).
>>      
> No; grub has nothing to do with it.
>
> Ubuntu's startup jobs (specifically, mountall) want to mount all
> filesystems mentioned in /etc/fstab before they let users log in.
>
>    
>> Fine, I thought, I will now change everything back, boot the system and
>> use the partitioner in 10.04 to rename the mounts, then run update-grub
>> and live happily ever after. Pigs will fly :-( .
>>      
> update-grub is not necessary (but won't be harmful).
>
> What do you mean when you say "the partitioner"?  System ->
> Administration ->  Disk tool?
>    

Yes, Disk Utility.

>> The partitioner has changed its clothes and now looks, or acts, nothing
>> like it did when the system was being installed - and the mount points
>> cannot be renamed. Not ever PartedMagic will do it for that matter.
>>      
> I thought it worked the first time around?
>    


Which worked the first time around - the partitioner when Ubuntu was 
being installed or PartedMagic? PartedMagic doesn't come into it when 
you are installing Ubuntu and partitioning the drive(s).


>> So, the question now is: how can I alter the mount points from Windows/D
>> etc to windows/D etc? Any ideas, please?
>>      
> I can tell you how to do that from a terminal:
>
>    sudo -s
>    umount /Windows/D
>      (repeat this for all mount points under /Windows)
>      (if this fails, close all applications that are accessing data in
>      that filesystem and try again)
>    mv /Windows /windows
>    gedit /etc/fstab
>      (change /Windows to /windows everywhere)
>    mount -a
>
> I don't know if there are GUI tools that let you rename mountpoints.
>    

But isn't this the exact thing when I use PartedMagic and it's mc 
(midnight commander) to not only rename the directory tree entry 
(Windows>windows) and edit the fstab?

BC

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