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[Hilton Gibson]

Can you paste the output of the following command:
$ cat /etc/fstab



On 19 January 2013 09:28, Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Frans de waal <meesterarend at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> > You still need to edit /etc/fstab and add the home partition... if you
> want
> > you can look for a utility to help, but your best option would be to
> google
> > "adding partitions to fstab". There are two formats for inserting the
> > partition,  adding it as /dev/sd? Is easy and straight forward... though
> > adding it ussing the device id is more reliable when you add another hdd
> to
> > the system.
> > HTH
> > Frans de Waal
>
> Thanks Wesley and Frans.
>
> I must admit that fstab terrifies me! I fixed it once before (to mount
> a 500 GB disk that I have on the machine) and that took a lot of
> courage.
>
> But I will persevere.
>
> How do I know which partition I want to use? And how do I find the
> UUID of a partition? Here is my fdisk output for sdb (sdba is my
> additional disk):
>
> bill at Lucy:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x0003fd95
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1   *        2048    19533821     9765887   83  Linux
> /dev/sdb2        19533822   312580095   146523137    5  Extended
> /dev/sdb5        19533824    19544063        5120   82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
> /dev/sdb6        19546112   312580095   146516992   83  Linux
>
> It seems a bit strange that sdb2 and sbd6 overlap. Somewhere in there
> is my Home folder!
>
> (Sorry - I have not done the Googling yet, but am about to!)
>
> Thanks
>
> Bill
>
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