Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check

[Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>]

On 2/22/19 5:54 PM, David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 22 Feb 2019 at 14:20:05 (-0500), Michael Stone wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 11:36:28AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> > > Before disconnection the power to the drives, I edited out their
> > > lines in fstab. I disconnecting the power to sdb and sdc and
> > > started the computer.  It booted for a few lines until it
> > > encountered the line starting with 'start job fgfor device disk by
> > > . . .' (at least that what i jotted down). then t\iot Then it
> > > through the three HD's, two of which had the power unplugged) for
> > > 1 minute and 30 seconds and then went on to tell me that I could
> > > log on as root or ctrl-D to continue.  Ctrl-D didn't work so I
> > > logged oh as root
> >
> > It sounds like you didn't actually comment them out of fstab.

> Well, that should be easy to check: reconnect the drives and boot
> up the system "as normal". And while it's up, I would seriously
> look at those mount point names; I agree, they are awful.
> Create some nice new ones to use with your future disk(s).


I know little to nothing about a raid, but otherwise I would boot with 
the new drive installed and run "blkid" then make appropriate changes to 
the "fstab".
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