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    Looking for Advice Regarding Proper Mounting of a Hard Drive Disk Partition

    Hi,

    I split a 4 TB HDD into two 2 TB partitions (GPT table). I formatted one partition as an ext4 file system and I want to dedicate it to work done on Ubuntu. The 2nd partition might be used later for work done on Windows. I thought this will be safer than having one FAT32 formatted partition shared by both operating systems.

    It makes sense to me to use PARTUUID a not UUID since the former is partition specific. I assume I will need to append the /dev/fstab file with:


    PARTUUID=XXXX /mydirectory ext4 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 2

    And then use: mount -a

    Before I do this I wanted to know if my thinking is correct. I guess I can also use the label name that I created for that specific partition. If I use UUID will I mount both partitions to the same point? Looking forward to your comments/suggestions!

    Cheers,
    Mike
    Last edited by michael-bielesky; July 4th, 2020 at 04:27 AM.

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