<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>Hi Bill, </div><div><br></div><div>Please can you provide the output of <i>sudo blkid | grep "ext\|vfat\|ntfs" </i> to get a better understanding of your disks and partitions.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>On Mon, 2020-06-15 at 09:42 +0200, Bill Cairns wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Wesley,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your reply. <br></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Bill<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 at 02:17, Wesley Werner <<a href="mailto:wesley.werner@gmail.com">wesley.werner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi Bill</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">You said the boot drive is sda1, but your SSD disk lists as sdb2 (UUID=2e740efb). Perhaps the BIOS is booting the wrong drive? <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Regards<br>Wesley Werner</div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 1:03 AM Bill Cairns <<a href="mailto:cairnsww@gmail.com" target="_blank">cairnsww@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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')</div><div>/dev/sda6 on /media/bill/b7092661-c008-4beb-9cdc-06c3dd036181 type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uhelper=udisks2)</div><div><br></div><div>I can access it quite happily that way too.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 14 Jun 2020 at 16:19, Bill Cairns <<a href="mailto:cairnsww@gmail.com" target="_blank">cairnsww@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks for your reply Paolo. I confess that I am not quite sure what I should be looking for. The mount -v gives me:</div><div>/dev/sda6 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime)</div><div>While /proc/mounts has</div><div>/dev/sda6 /home ext4 rw,relatime 0 0</div><div><br></div><div>That would seem the same, but I am not sure I am looking at the right things. <br></div><div><br></div><div>This is the ssd with the OS from mount -v:</div><div></div><div>/dev/sdb2 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro)</div><div>and from /proc/mounts:</div><div>/dev/sdb2 / ext4 rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 0</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 at 22:34, Paolo Gigante <<a href="mailto:paolo.gigante.sa@gmail.com" target="_blank">paolo.gigante.sa@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Not that it should cause a crash but are you sure its an ext4 filesystem on that device? <br>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</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 2:38 PM Bill Cairns <<a href="mailto:cairnsww@gmail.com" target="_blank">cairnsww@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Boot is on the hard drive - sda1</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 at 15:30, Frans de waal <<a href="mailto:meesterarend@gmail.com" target="_blank">meesterarend@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Just a thought... What is the boot drive in the bios?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 at 15:10, Bill Cairns <<a href="mailto:cairnsww@gmail.com" target="_blank">cairnsww@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello everybody,</div><div><br></div><div>I am trying to run 20.04 with my OS on an SSD device and my home directory on my old hard drive.</div><div><br></div><div>This mount command works perfectly:<br></div><div>sudo mount UUID=b7092661-c008-4beb-9cdc-06c3dd036181 /home</div><div><br></div><div>However, when I try to do the same thing in fstab -</div><div># /etc/fstab: static file system information.<br>#<br># Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a<br># device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices<br># that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).<br>#<br># <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass><br># / was on /dev/sdb2 during installation<br>UUID=2e740efb-b15b-4bea-9ef8-a20dd7a87186 / ext4 noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1<br># swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation<br>UUID=1c5e43a0-097c-4d68-90df-e544497323dd none swap sw 0 0<br>#<br># Home is on sda6. Added 2020-06-13<br>#<br>UUID=b7092661-c008-4beb-9cdc-06c3dd036181 /home ext4 nodev,nosuid,relatime 0 2</div><div><br></div><div>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!)</div><div><br></div><div>I have used the example in <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab</a> (changing the UUID of course).</div><div><br></div><div>I am sure that I am missing something very simple. 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