Problem Mounting New Drives

["Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net>]

Up to date Stretch.

I have just reinstalled Stretch on a new SSD as sda.  I  have two 
additional HD's on the platform, sdb and sdc.

Here is the blkid ouput:

root@AbNormal:/home/comp# blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="07defe36-57e7-4218-82cb-35cc109b004e" TYPE="ext4" 
PARTUUID="2f9cc88d-01"
/dev/sda5: UUID="8f4eeaae-a055-4262-bebb-cf99abe982a5" TYPE="ext4" 
PARTUUID="2f9cc88d-05"
/dev/sda6: UUID="09461b2f-2b58-461a-869f-eef158a78127" TYPE="swap" 
PARTUUID="2f9cc88d-06"
/dev/sda7: UUID="3508065e-0ab4-424f-9002-3b237e5d120e" TYPE="ext4" 
PARTUUID="2f9cc88d-07"
/dev/sda8: UUID="af824450-3dd9-48b8-8ff3-c831365f31fa" TYPE="ext4" 
PARTUUID="2f9cc88d-08"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="900b5f0b-4f3d-4a64-8c91-29aee4c6fd07" TYPE="ext4" 
PARTUUID="0bc7db76-01"
/dev/sdb5: UUID="7c386aca-a547-475f-8616-f7664f93c595" TYPE="swap" 
PARTUUID="0bc7db76-05"
/dev/sdc1: UUID="d65867da-c658-4e35-928c-9dd2d6dd5742" TYPE="ext4" 
PARTUUID="0003d403-01"
/dev/sdc2: UUID="007c1f16-34a4-438c-9d15-e3df601649ba" TYPE="ext4" 
PARTUUID="0003d403-02"

On the basis of blkid output I edited /etc/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/sda1 during installation
UUID=07defe36-57e7-4218-82cb-35cc109b004e /               ext4 
errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /home was on /dev/sda8 during installation
UUID=af824450-3dd9-48b8-8ff3-c831365f31fa /home           ext4 
defaults        0       2
# /tmp was on /dev/sda7 during installation
UUID=3508065e-0ab4-424f-9002-3b237e5d120e /tmp            ext4 
defaults        0       2
# /var was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=8f4eeaae-a055-4262-bebb-cf99abe982a5 /var            ext4 
defaults        0       2
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=09461b2f-2b58-461a-869f-eef158a78127 none            swap 
sw              0       0
/dev/sr0        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0 0

UUID=900b5f0b-4f3d-4a64-8c91-29aee4c6fd07 /dev/sdb1 ext4 
errors=remount-ro 0       1
UUID=d65867da-c658-4e35-928c-9dd2d6dd5742 /dev/sdc1 ext4 
errors=remount-ro 0       1
UUID=007c1f16-34a4-438c-9d15-e3df601649ba /dev/sdc2 ext4 
errors=remount-ro 0       1

/dev/sdb5 is the swap partition on the old sda, the new SSD was 
installed as sda, so I didn't include that swap in the edited fstab.

I also added sdb1, sdc1 and sdc2 to /.  /dev contains 
/sdb/sdb1/sdb2/sdb5/sdc,sdc1 and sdc2 as well as all of the entries for sda.

Before saving the edited fstab I renamed the /etc/fsab /etc/fstab_old.

When I rebooted the computer the OS didn't like the new fstab and gave 
me a number of, at least to me, obscure messages.

However, I was allowed to log on as root and execute startx.  This 
allowed me to reinstall the unedited fstab and the system booted properly.

Obviously, I missed something important.  My question is what?

Thanks in advance.

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