> And I absolutely hate the Linux system of assigning letters to drives as it > finds them so you can never be sure what you're dealing with.
Are you able to use UUIDs in fstab instead? UUIDs don't change between boots. You can run `blkid <device>` to find the UUID. Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Sunday, November 17, 2019 10:25 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 05:58:30 +0000 > Reid [email protected] dijo: > > > > I also noticed an error message that it could not mount Synology > > > > While this could be due to a number of issues (e.g., inability to > > connect to the NFS server or find the export there), I'm suspicious > > about your mount point "/media/jjjSynology". Are the three j's > > supposed to be there? > > Yes, Ubuntu makes a folder in /media for each user, and I am jjj. > > Regarding the extra / in the fstab line for /home, that is just a typo. > I am having to use my desktop computer to get to the net, requiring me > to retype what I see on the problem computer. > > However, I have discovered additional clues. There is a line in fstab > to mount an external USB drive with the label Movies. I discovered that > it was being mounted as /dev/sdb1. In other words, the line that is > trying to mount /dev/sdb2 as /home is failing because the Movies drive > has taken /dev/sdb. > > It is too late for me to think clearly, bu7t in the morning I am going > to use a live GParted DVD to add a label to the /home partition, and > then edit the line in fstab to reflect the change. > > And I absolutely hate the Linux system of assigning letters to drives > as it finds them so you can never be sure what you're dealing with. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
