[ubuntu-za] Problems with fstab

[Bill Cairns]

Thanks for your reply Paolo. I confess that I am not quite sure what I
should be looking for. The mount -v gives me:
/dev/sda6 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime)
While /proc/mounts has
/dev/sda6 /home ext4 rw,relatime 0 0

That would seem the same, but I am not sure I am looking at the right
things.

This is the ssd with the OS from mount -v:
/dev/sdb2 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro)
and from /proc/mounts:
/dev/sdb2 / ext4 rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 0


On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 at 22:34, Paolo Gigante <paolo.gigante.sa at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Not that it should cause a crash but are you sure its an ext4 filesystem
> on that device?
> If the mount command works, you may want to try 'mount -v' to see what
> mount is actually doing. Once you have used the mount command to attach the
> FS, does the entry look like in /proc/mounts
>
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 2:38 PM Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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