There's a chance your /boot partition already does something like this: https://www.thegeekdiary.com/centos-rhel-how-to-mount-file-systems-using-uuid/
Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Sunday, November 17, 2019 10:36 PM, Reid <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
