Re: Add a hard drive to existing system??
The fstab with the new drive now reads,
# /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=7748059d-ecc3-42ba-919b-e95202920927
/ ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=5efd2441-adab-4d4f-9356-9671964198f7
none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
# sdb1 ext4 e68b74c4-1cee-43a6-8ce6-50e97a65d976
UUID=e68b74c4-1cee-43a6-8ce6-
50e97a65d976 /data ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 2
jerry@UNIX:~\>
-----Original Message-----
From: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Add a hard drive to existing system??
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 01:23:30 -0800
On 2021-01-18 01:00, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> On 18/1/21 9:44 am, Jerry Mellon wrote:
> > Currently the fstab file
> > reads as follows.
> >
> >
> >
> > Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
> > Disk model: ST9500325AS
> > Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> > Disklabel type: dos
> > Disk identifier: 0x0d0d6868
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
> > /dev/sda1 * 2048 951703551 951701504 453.8G 83 Linux
> > /dev/sda2 951705598 976771071 25065474 12G 5 Extended
> > /dev/sda5 951705600 976771071 25065472 12G 82 Linux swap /
> > Solaris
>
> Before OP installs the new drive, hadn't we better sort out the
> claimed
> fstab. I think it is output from fdisk, but if grub is looking for
> sda1
> to boot from and the new disk is assigned /dev/sda, he won't boot.
D'oh! Yes, that is fdisk(8) output.
Jerry -- please run the following command as root and post the complete
console session -- prompt, command entered, and output obtained:
# cat /etc/fstab
David
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