[ubuntu-za] Problems with fstab

[Bill Cairns]

Boot is on the hard drive - sda1


On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 at 15:30, Frans de waal <meesterarend at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just a thought... What is the boot drive in the bios?
>
> On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 at 15:10, Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> I am trying to run 20.04 with my OS on an SSD device and my home
>> directory on my old hard drive.
>>
>> This mount command works perfectly:
>> sudo mount UUID=b7092661-c008-4beb-9cdc-06c3dd036181 /home
>>
>> However, when I try to do the same thing in fstab -
>> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
>> #
>> # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
>> # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
>> # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
>> #
>> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
>> # / was on /dev/sdb2 during installation
>> UUID=2e740efb-b15b-4bea-9ef8-a20dd7a87186 /         ext4
>>  noatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
>> # swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
>> UUID=1c5e43a0-097c-4d68-90df-e544497323dd none            swap    sw
>>          0       0
>> #
>> # Home is on sda6. Added 2020-06-13
>> #
>> UUID=b7092661-c008-4beb-9cdc-06c3dd036181 /home ext4
>> nodev,nosuid,relatime  0  2
>>
>> The system crashes rather badly and says 'You are now in emergency mode'
>> or something equivalent. (And I have no idea how to do anything in
>> emergency mode!)
>>
>> I have used the example in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab
>> (changing the UUID of course).
>>
>> I am sure that I am missing something very simple. Can anyone help please?
>>
>> Thanks, keep safe,
>>
>> Bill
>>
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