Xubuntu 16.04

JMZ florentior at gmail.com
Wed Jun 1 15:23:15 UTC 2016


Hi Charles,

Just another thought.  After using blkid, you might want to read 
/etc/mtab.  Grep each drive by /dev assignment for the full information 
needed for /etc/fstab.  You will still need to use UUID from blkid to 
sufficiently assign drives in /etc/fstab.

Thanks
Jordan

On 06/01/2016 11:03 AM, JMZ wrote:
> Hi Charles,
>
> Run 'sudo blkid' in a 16.04 terminal.  The important information here 
> are the UUID codes, which fstab needs to permanently mount media 
> devices on bootup.  It's possible to use the /dev drive assignments 
> instead of UUID in fstab ito identify the drives, but this is not 
> recommended given that /dev assignments can and will change.
>
> Thanks,
> Jordan
>
> On 06/01/2016 10:23 AM, Charles M wrote:
>> Sorry I'm not the original poster Dave, but one thing I found that
>> changed across all the *buntus was the disk setup. I'm still using
>> 14.04. For some odd reason 16.04 (USB key) cannot recognize my drive
>> setup. I've tried Xubuntu, Ubuntu, and Ubuntu MATE and they all fail
>> to see my SSD+HD. If I dd a 14.04 ISO to the key it has no problem
>> seeing the drives. It's bizarre. I'm not really using any strange
>> hardware: a Gigabyte motherboard, A8-5600K APU, 120GB SSD + 1TB WD
>> HDD. Bizarre that 14.04 sees it but 16.04 doesn't. That said I've been
>> lazy and haven't looked at the bug queue.
>>
>> On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Dave Pearson <dave at reklan.co.uk> 
>> wrote:
>>> Can I ask what you think is wrong with 16.04
>>>
>>> Personally I find it a lot better
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>> On 27 May 2016 at 16:10 Richard Thornton 
>>> <thornton.richard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> What happened to Xubuntu?  Version 15.10 was really good;  why 
>>> change it?
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