Re: Fstab Questions (Final time)
On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 07:43:42 -0400
"Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>At least I hope it's the final time.
>
>
>I know that I have posted this question before, but due to reinstalling
>the OS, I have a clean slate at this point. Now, I've done quite a bit
>of goggling and utubing and I want to be sure that I'm not going to
>crash the system when I add two drives to the fstab.
>
>Here is my current drive structure:
>
>
>NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
>sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk
>├─sda1 8:1 0 457.9G 0 part /
>├─sda2 8:2 0 1K 0 part
>└─sda5 8:5 0 7.9G 0 part [SWAP]
>sdb 8:16 0 1.8T 0 disk
>├─sdb1 8:17 0 1.8T 0 part
>├─sdb2 8:18 0 1K 0 part
>└─sdb5 8:21 0 7.9G 0 part
>sdc 8:32 0 465.8G 0 disk
>└─sdc1 8:33 0 465.8G 0 part
>sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
>
>sdc is a new SSD and I formatted it with only one partition. sdb still
>has a previous OS that I intend removing.
>
>Here are the the results of blkid:
>
>/dev/sda1: UUID="71f1ed49-9178-4bbc-b872-510f7982e245" TYPE="ext4"
>PARTUUID="1435f170-01"
>/dev/sda5: UUID="4b041dec-d00f-4acf-a731-f6a34d885105" TYPE="swap"
>PARTUUID="1435f170-05"
>/dev/sdc1: UUID="1f363165-2c59-4236-850d-36d1e807099e" TYPE="ext4"
>PARTUUID="eb2be395-01"
>/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"
>
>Here is the curerent fstab (missing exteraneous comment statements):
>
># <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
># / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
>UUID=71f1ed49-9178-4bbc-b872-510f7982e245 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
># swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
>UUID=4b041dec-d00f-4acf-a731-f6a34d885105 none swap sw 0 0
>/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
>
>Finally, here is what I am proposing adding to the fstab:
>
>UUID=900b5f0b-4f3d-4a64-8c91-29aee4c6fd07 /sdb1 ext4 rw,users,defaults 0 0
>UUID=1f363165-2c59-4236-850d-36d1e807099e /sdc1 ext4 rw,users,defaults 0 0
>
>Note: I have added /sdb1 and /sdc1.
>
>The only questions at this point are:
>1. Will these changes crash the system,and
>2. Will I be able to read adn write to the added drives?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
I am no expert, and they can correct me if I am wrong. Should "users"
be singular, as in "user"?
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