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Why did Edgy change fstab?

Asked by cmnorton

Even though I am at Feisty, it appears from fstab (current) that Edgy modified fstab. My system has two IDE drives, a 40 GB and a 200GB, but I am 65% capacity which does not seem correct to me. My question is why did Edgy change fstab? I wanted /home on the larger (not install) IDE, 200 GB. I have output from several places.

Thanks.
Charles Norton

Here's df's output. To the best of my knowledge, I do not have a SCSI or SATA drive in this system.

cnorton@linux-testU:~$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 37001804 23956340 11165864 69% /
varrun 254008 240 253768 1% /var/run
varlock 254008 4 254004 1% /var/lock
procbususb 254008 112 253896 1% /proc/bus/usb
udev 254008 112 253896 1% /dev
devshm 254008 0 254008 0% /dev/shm
lrm 254008 34504 219504 14% /lib/modules/2.6.20-16-386/volatile
cnorton@linux-testU:~$

Here's what the link for home looks like:

cnorton@linux-testU:~$ ls -ld /home
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2007-06-19 12:32 /home -> /mnt/hdb1/home
cnorton@linux-testU:~$

Here's what's out on /mnt/hdb1

cnorton@linux-testU:/mnt/hdb1$ ls -l
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2007-07-09 12:56 home
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 2007-06-19 15:20 samba_shares
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-07-09 14:09 tmp
cnorton@linux-testU:/mnt/hdb1$

And, here's fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/hda1 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
UUID=ec94d7ad-6480-443f-bbe7-44c6fa1e2e96 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/hda5 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
UUID=5b16941c-1903-426b-9375-afc5e60ccadc none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

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Best Wrwrwr (wrwrwr) said : 		#1

Maybe it just switched old device identifiers to uuids, using these would simply be recommended.

You shouldn't mind the sda, hda thing it's more or less the same, sda is also used for usb disks and maybe some other. You can find out what kernel thinks about your disk with: "sudo hdparm -i /dev/sda".

Your df seems to only shows one disk the 40gb one, like the second one has not been mounted at all.

I don't really understand the problem with wrong location of home, home points to home on the second disk, isn't it?

Could you also show the output of "sudo fdisk -l" and contents of /etc/mtab, please?

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cmnorton (octopusgrabbus) said : 		#2

Basically, /dev/hdb became /dev/sdb. I was able to fdisk and then mkfs the volume. Many thanks.