I use separate data partitions and install/reinstall often to test. # are my own comments on planned improvements or old versions of stuff. You will als
This is my script as my data partitions UUIDs do not change even though the installs UUID is new. The mounts I have already created.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
# make mount points for other partitions
echo $USER
mkdir /mnt/cdrive
#mkdir /mnt/backup
# windows shared NTFS
mkdir /mnt/shared
chown $USER:$USER /mnt/shared
chmod 777 /mnt/shared
mkdir /mnt/data
chown $USER:$USER /mnt/data
chmod 777 /mnt/data
#The big "X" will also not make files executable unless they were executable to begin with.Morbius1
#sudo chmod -R a+rwX /mnt/data
# edit fstab to add mounts, UUIDs of data partitions do not change
cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.backup
#Edit fstab first Need to change from UUID to labels, so it works on both portable & DT
str1="# Entry for /dev/sdc6 :"
str2="UUID=a55e6335-616f-4b10-9923-e963559f2b05 /mnt/data ext3 auto,users,rw,relatime 0 2 "
str3="# Entry for /dev/sda1 :"
str4="UUID=04B05B70B05B6768 /mnt/cdrive ntfs-3g defaults,uid=1000,nls=utf8,windows_names 0 0 "
str5="# Entry for /dev/sdc2 :"
str6="UUID=44332FD360AA9657 /mnt/shared ntfs-3g defaults,uid=1000,nls=utf8,windows_names 0 0 "
fname=/etc/fstab
echo $str1 >> $fname
echo $str2 >> $fname
echo $str3 >> $fname
echo $str4 >> $fname
echo $str5 >> $fname
echo $str6 >> $fname
# Verify no errors in fstab & remount with new mounts
mount -a
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