sidewalkcynic
November 3rd, 2011, 05:07 PM
I installed 11.10 with a new partition table. My concept is to have the most active file systems near the center of the physical hard drive (home,var,tmp,swap); and the boot and root at the beginning of the HDD.
I have 5 large partitions dedicated to storing user files, and I adjust thier position and size to manuever the active partitions to the center of the HDD; and at installation I disgnate their mount points because I want them to be mounted at boot:
/media/A
/media/B
/media/C
/media/D
/media/E
I have names and size parameters for for the 5 users' partitions, and I want the partition names to be in a specific order in the Nautilus file browser, but because I did not know the order that Ubuntu would mount the partitions, I gave them the letter designations and would adjust the partitions' size and names using Gparted when I get the desktop up and going.
So, what happened is that the partions mounted in an order that shows up in Nautlus as:
/media/C
/media/D
/media/E
/media/A
/media/B
C,D, and E are at the end of the HDD, so, instead of resizing them, I just deleted and recreated them to the sizes that I needed them to be. Since, A and B are toward the center of the HDD, I took the time to resize them with Gparted.
The problem, seems to me, to be that since I removed the mount points, or changed the UUID of C,D, and E, when I deleted them Ubuntu won't boot.
because I am in USBLive mode, I don't know how to get the blkid code, but here is the fstab and mstab.
fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=92139ec4-4b27-4b5d-9602-2cbafc1e48f7 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /boot was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=c326c3f9-ef96-4c1d-bf71-e622e5def5d5 /boot ext4 defaults 0 2
# /home was on /dev/sda8 during installation
UUID=662489c5-863d-41ac-9fc4-9f3c069a43e6 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
# /media/A was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=f41bc4dc-892e-4ba1-952a-dc93e9d7cabf /media/A ext4 defaults 0 2
# /media/B was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=c8ca1423-ef83-4f20-a7ca-f7f2ac6cc429 /media/B ext4 defaults 0 2
# /media/C was on /dev/sda13 during installation
UUID=d504c021-6c34-4b69-927d-ba1d1efa15d1 /media/C ext4 defaults 0 2
# /media/D was on /dev/sda14 during installation
UUID=1f78e55f-da39-48ee-b9d8-355d70ed415c /media/D ext4 defaults 0 2
# /media/E was on /dev/sda15 during installation
UUID=4ccadc18-76ae-4def-8dd2-3d486a392b0a /media/E ext4 defaults 0 2
# /media/TIME was on /dev/mmcblk0p1 during installation
UUID=3cb310ee-f5fe-4fab-9e75-81a98d680bb1 /media/TIME ext2 defaults 0 2
# /opt was on /dev/sda12 during installation
UUID=a697d062-1aa7-4456-b6c9-74d654b562dd /opt ext4 defaults 0 2
# /tmp was on /dev/sda9 during installation
UUID=237bc714-885e-4aa9-a0e4-5d5f6937bd48 /tmp ext4 defaults 0 2
# /usr was on /dev/sda10 during installation
UUID=ec86160e-661e-4ff6-b338-16bf7bcee095 /usr ext4 defaults 0 2
# /usr/local was on /dev/sda11 during installation
UUID=8dedd26a-5e31-434b-a83d-00f0e161892c /usr/local ext4 defaults 0 2
# /var was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=280a8e1a-056b-4a27-908c-34d242690e15 /var ext4 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda7 during installation
UUID=3ed15645-08c4-475d-b1d8-f115d5876a58 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sda2 / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0
none /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw 0 0
none /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0
udev /dev devtmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620 0 0
tmpfs /run tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755 0 0
none /run/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880 0 0
none /run/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/sda9 /tmp ext4 rw 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext4 rw 0 0
/dev/sda8 /home ext4 rw 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/A ext4 rw 0 0
/dev/sda6 /media/B ext4 rw 0 0
/dev/sda12 /opt ext4 rw 0 0
/dev/sda10 /usr ext4 rw 0 0
/dev/sda11 /usr/local ext4 rw 0 0
/dev/sda3 /var ext4 rw 0 0
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/TIME ext2 rw 0 0
I would like to make the mount points the proper designations that I have for them, but not that big of a deal since the labelling process of Gparted has handled it for the Nautilus sidepane:
/media/C - NATURE
/media/D - TECHs
/media/E - HEALTH
/media/A - SOCIETY
/media/B - IDEOs
I have 5 large partitions dedicated to storing user files, and I adjust thier position and size to manuever the active partitions to the center of the HDD; and at installation I disgnate their mount points because I want them to be mounted at boot:
/media/A
/media/B
/media/C
/media/D
/media/E
I have names and size parameters for for the 5 users' partitions, and I want the partition names to be in a specific order in the Nautilus file browser, but because I did not know the order that Ubuntu would mount the partitions, I gave them the letter designations and would adjust the partitions' size and names using Gparted when I get the desktop up and going.
So, what happened is that the partions mounted in an order that shows up in Nautlus as:
/media/C
/media/D
/media/E
/media/A
/media/B
C,D, and E are at the end of the HDD, so, instead of resizing them, I just deleted and recreated them to the sizes that I needed them to be. Since, A and B are toward the center of the HDD, I took the time to resize them with Gparted.
The problem, seems to me, to be that since I removed the mount points, or changed the UUID of C,D, and E, when I deleted them Ubuntu won't boot.
because I am in USBLive mode, I don't know how to get the blkid code, but here is the fstab and mstab.
fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=92139ec4-4b27-4b5d-9602-2cbafc1e48f7 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /boot was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=c326c3f9-ef96-4c1d-bf71-e622e5def5d5 /boot ext4 defaults 0 2
# /home was on /dev/sda8 during installation
UUID=662489c5-863d-41ac-9fc4-9f3c069a43e6 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
# /media/A was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=f41bc4dc-892e-4ba1-952a-dc93e9d7cabf /media/A ext4 defaults 0 2
# /media/B was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=c8ca1423-ef83-4f20-a7ca-f7f2ac6cc429 /media/B ext4 defaults 0 2
# /media/C was on /dev/sda13 during installation
UUID=d504c021-6c34-4b69-927d-ba1d1efa15d1 /media/C ext4 defaults 0 2
# /media/D was on /dev/sda14 during installation
UUID=1f78e55f-da39-48ee-b9d8-355d70ed415c /media/D ext4 defaults 0 2
# /media/E was on /dev/sda15 during installation
UUID=4ccadc18-76ae-4def-8dd2-3d486a392b0a /media/E ext4 defaults 0 2
# /media/TIME was on /dev/mmcblk0p1 during installation
UUID=3cb310ee-f5fe-4fab-9e75-81a98d680bb1 /media/TIME ext2 defaults 0 2
# /opt was on /dev/sda12 during installation
UUID=a697d062-1aa7-4456-b6c9-74d654b562dd /opt ext4 defaults 0 2
# /tmp was on /dev/sda9 during installation
UUID=237bc714-885e-4aa9-a0e4-5d5f6937bd48 /tmp ext4 defaults 0 2
# /usr was on /dev/sda10 during installation
UUID=ec86160e-661e-4ff6-b338-16bf7bcee095 /usr ext4 defaults 0 2
# /usr/local was on /dev/sda11 during installation
UUID=8dedd26a-5e31-434b-a83d-00f0e161892c /usr/local ext4 defaults 0 2
# /var was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=280a8e1a-056b-4a27-908c-34d242690e15 /var ext4 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda7 during installation
UUID=3ed15645-08c4-475d-b1d8-f115d5876a58 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sda2 / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0
none /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw 0 0
none /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0
udev /dev devtmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620 0 0
tmpfs /run tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755 0 0
none /run/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880 0 0
none /run/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/sda9 /tmp ext4 rw 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext4 rw 0 0
/dev/sda8 /home ext4 rw 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/A ext4 rw 0 0
/dev/sda6 /media/B ext4 rw 0 0
/dev/sda12 /opt ext4 rw 0 0
/dev/sda10 /usr ext4 rw 0 0
/dev/sda11 /usr/local ext4 rw 0 0
/dev/sda3 /var ext4 rw 0 0
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/TIME ext2 rw 0 0
I would like to make the mount points the proper designations that I have for them, but not that big of a deal since the labelling process of Gparted has handled it for the Nautilus sidepane:
/media/C - NATURE
/media/D - TECHs
/media/E - HEALTH
/media/A - SOCIETY
/media/B - IDEOs