[ubuntu-za] Problems with fstab

Mon Jun 15 08:51:24 UTC 2020

HI

This is what works for me

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*I have an SSD as boot drive and then 3TB HD as /home drive. I just used
the UUID.*

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On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 9:42 AM Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Wesley,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> I hope that I am talking sense here. (I am sometimes not sure that I am
> using the right terminology.) Going back in time, I started with only the
> hard disk which is now sda. I had boot, the OS, and everything else on it.
> Then after a couple of years I added the ssd - now sba. Now I have
> installed the OS on the ssd, but I still boot from my hard drive. (That is,
> when I did the install, I specified '/' as being on sb2.) It seems to work
> very well except for this problem of not being able to use fstab to specify
> where /home is.
>
> At the moment, I am manually mounting /home after startup. Again, it all
> works well except that I have two /home directories - one on the ssd and
> the one that I use.
>
> Bill
>
> On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 at 02:17, Wesley Werner <wesley.werner at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Bill
>>
>> You said the boot drive is sda1, but your SSD disk lists as sdb2
>> (UUID=2e740efb). Perhaps the BIOS is booting the wrong drive?
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>> Wesley Werner
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 1:03 AM Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I tried looking at the drive before mounting it as /home and this is
>>> what it looks like with mount -v (I asked nautilus to mount the '960 Gb
>>> drive')
>>> /dev/sda6 on /media/bill/b7092661-c008-4beb-9cdc-06c3dd036181 type ext4
>>> (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uhelper=udisks2)
>>>
>>> I can access it quite happily that way too.
>>>
>>> On Sun, 14 Jun 2020 at 16:19, Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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