Hello John I had thought that an error attempting to mount a file system that no longer existed would appear in /var/log/dmesg ; but in fact I have just tried manufacturing a comparable situation (line in /etc/fstab referring to a disk that's not on line at the time of boot) and I did not get the error in dmesg that I had hoped to see. My situation of course is a bit different. Unfortunately I don't now have the machine that showed this particular symptom (company laptop, returned). But may be worth having a look there in case.
cheers victor On 6 November 2014 21:49, JD <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm getting a new desktop, from Chillblast at Tower Park, and on Tuesday > in the pub I asked some questions that seemed relevant for setting it up > with Ubuntu. I'm just noting here the answers I received, as I remember > them. Please feel free to correct or amplify them. > > Currently, on my old PC, with 2 users it takes a long time to switch from > one to the other but is much quicker vice versa. (Both are already logged > in.) Christopher thought that this could be because one of the users is > the administrator. Therefore a better solution would be to have a separate > admin account. That seems a bit tedious but could be worth it. Does admin > have to be logged in to receive and process updates? > > I'll have an SSD on the new PC and I want to put one user on this and the > other(s) on the HDD. Victor strongly recommended that the top level > directories are different for each of these. So, /ssd would have the home > directory of one user and be mounted on an SSD partition, and /home would > have all the others on the HDD. Also, I presume I should have another SSD > partition for / and a third for swap (swap same size as RAM?) > > Victor, I mentioned a current problem about the boot pausing because I had > deleted a partition with gparted offline but it was still listed in fstab. > After continuing the boot and logging in I couldn't find info about the > problem (I didn't know the cause at this time), so I had to reboot and > write (yes, pen and paper!) the UUID down. Victor, your instant reaction > was - look at the logs. Could you give a simple primer, or say where to > find one, about the most useful logs? > > Thanks for your trouble. > > Regards, > John > > > > -- > Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-11-04 20:00 > Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] > How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue > -- best regards, 웃 Victor Churchill, Bournemouth -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-11-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
