Re: Problem Mounting New Drives

[john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com>]

On 8/19/2018 8:59 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> On 08/19/2018 02:28 PM, Reco wrote:
> >     Hi.
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 02:04:39PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> >
> > Note that second field is a mountpoint in fstab(5), as one of the stock
> > records show:
> >
> > > UUID=8f4eeaae-a055-4262-bebb-cf99abe982a5 /var            ext4 defaults
> > > 0       2
> > Yours have a block device name instead of mountpoint:
> >
> > > 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
> > So even a stock mount(1) should refuse to mount these.
> >
> >
> > > 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.
> > systemd-mount can be cryptic, I agree.
> >
> >
> > > Obviously, I missed something important.  My question is what?
> > It's a kind of dumb question, but where do you need your sdb1, sdc1 and
> > sdc2 mounted? Your fstab(5) does not mention that.
> >
> > Reco
> Well, that's another red faced forehead slapper!
>
> It merely reinforces that I don't know what I'm doing as far as hardware 
> is concerned.
>
> It's a good thing that I'm an Organic Chemist and not an IT person.

Instead of trying your new changes in '/etc/fstab' by rebooting, you 
could also try 'mount -a'.

https://linux.die.net/man/8/mount

--
John Doe