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

[Mike McMullin]

On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 01:25 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 07/05/10 01:04, John DeCarlo wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au 
> > <mailto:blchupin at iinet.net.au>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 07/05/10 00:30, John DeCarlo wrote:
> >     >
> >     > I don't understand why you would use PartedMagic to do any of this.
> >     >
> >     > Renaming files and folders (whether they are mount points or not) is
> >     > very easy.  Either from command line or file manager.
> >     >
> >     > In fact, you could easily have just create /windows/D and unmounted
> >     > the partition mounted against /Windows/D and remounted it to
> >     /Windows/D.
> >     >
> >     > Even easier if you edited /etc/fstab to do this.
> >     >
> >     > No rebooting, no repartitioning.  It has nothing to do with
> >     partitions
> >     > at all.
> >     >
> >     > What am I missing?
> >
> >     PartedMagic (I guess it is also called Gparted?) has mc (midnight
> >     commander). So, without having to unmount anything all one has to
> >     do is
> >     to mount the partition containing the operating system (in my case
> >     /dev/sda9) and edit not only the directory tree (from Windows>windows)
> >     but fstab as well.
> >
> >
> > But aren't you rebooting to do that?
> >
> > Rebooting is a lot more work than editing fstab, and typing "sudo 
> > umount -a" and "sudo mount -a"
> >
> > Remember, you ended up in a situation where you couldn't boot Ubuntu.  
> > That is pretty much because you decided to reboot and edit 
> > partitions.  Much more dangerous than the normal way.
>   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.
> 
> I then use Gparted's mc to edit the directory tree and fstab to replace 
> all capitalised Windows to lower case windows.
> 
> 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). 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 :-) .
> 
> Where am I deluding myself? :-)

  Pop in your liveCD and boot it, open a file system browser and check
the permissions on /etc/fstab on the filesystem that you altered.