On 2015-07-19 12:15, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 07/19/2015 11:06 AM, g wrote:
if such is critically related to /etc/fstab, partition magic has a
live cd you can boot to restructure partitions and the open fstab to
edit changes.
Even better, edit /etc/fstab to refer to partitions by UUID instead of
device name if it doesn't already. The various drives don't always
respond to probing in the same order (No, I don't know why.) meaning
that the numbering might change from one boot to the next, but the UUID
remains stable.
I will second this comment. Ran into the problem in the past.
Since I started using UUID, then I have not had any issues.
You can find out the partition UUID by
ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/
As an example in /etc/fstab change
/dev/sdb3 /opt/Steam ext4 defaults 1 2
to
UUID=bb998e5b-a9ad-4539-825f-41b6e1c665b0 /opt/Steam
ext4 defaults 1 2
Once you do this, you can add or remove partitions and drives as you
wish and the correct partition will be found each time. No need to
worry about the order they show up in.
I would also use gparted as explained in another post.
You can move and resize partitions around as needed. DO BACKUP if you
are going to resize partitions just in case. I have resized and moved
partitions with gparted on both Linux and Windows 8.1 machines with no
issues yet.
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