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

[John DeCarlo]

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:

>  I guess this is where I now ask if I am missing something here :-) .
>
> I have a computer which is switched off.
>
> I switch it on and while the BIOS is being read in I press the CD ROM
> button and insert the CD containing Gparted and the system boots into
> Gparted, not Ubuntu.
>

OK, this is totally random, as far as I can tell.  Why would you do this,
when you have Ubuntu working?

>
> I then use Gparted's mc to edit the directory tree and fstab to replace
> all capitalised Windows to lower case windows.
>

Again, totally random.

Remember, when you boot from a CD, you could have different settings than
when you boot Ubuntu.  (Which is why Ubuntu and others have been going to
UUIDs, because /dev/sda1 might not be the same thing when booting off the
hard drive as it is from CD.)


> I then exit Gparted, boot the computer and while it is doing this I
> remove the Gparted CD - and the computer will then boot normally off the
> HD where the corrections to fstab and the dirctory tree have been made
> (I know that they have been made because I can see them with mc in
> Gparted when I again boot with Gparted to re-edit all the lower case to
> caps so that Ubuntu can boot).


Well, you hope they were made correctly, but you don't *really* know it.
You might have made some mistake in the process.  After all, you weren't
running Ubuntu at the time, were you?


> However, Ubuntu does not boot, and from
> past experience it is "telling" me that it cannot find the partitions
> mentioned in fstab - or so I think :-) .
>

If you had actually made all the changes while in Ubuntu, you would *know*.
As it is, you can only *hope* you didn't make some error while booting a
different OS.


> Where am I deluding myself? :-)
>
>
Well, you don't know for sure what happened, do you?

Did you change any permissions on any of the files or directories you
changed?  Did you do something else inadvertent while *not running Ubuntu*?

Now you have to worry about what else you might have done.

All because you chose some random approach, instead of making the changes
while you were successfully using Ubuntu.  That is the more sensible
approach.

If you don't like how Ubuntu is mounting a partition, use Ubuntu to change
it.

And use Ubuntu to test it, etc.  No need to do something weird for no
reason.

-- 
John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own
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