From: faeychild@noname.afraid.org   
      
   Bit Twister wrote:   
      
   > On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 17:29:28 +1100, faeychild wrote:   
   >   
   >> I have a second hard drive full of stuff mounted on   "/data"   
   >>   
   >> It started to fail with enormously long fsck checks.   
   >>   
   >> So I plugged a new drive into "sdc" and using disk drake I partitioned   
   >> and   
   >> mounted on  ''/tmp' then copied all the stuff across.   
   >   
   > I would have used new or new_data as mount point instead of /tmp.   
      
   The drop down list was pretty sparse. I did try to use media but got refused   
      
   > su - root   
   > run the command   
   >   
   > blkid | sort -V   
      
   OK  Bits. Thanks. I get a list of UUID's;   
      
   I will work on it tomorrow.   
   Learned the hard way not to work late night   
   >   
   > now all you have to do is make the UUID in fstab match the value seen   
   > in blkid for each of your partitions while there you need to verify   
   > file system type (ext3, ext4,...) for each of those partitions.   
   >   
   > After you save your changes to fstab, check each by doing a mount.   
   > Example:   
   >  mount /tmp   
   >  mount /data   
   >   
   > If they mount without errors/complaints your next boot should be ok.   
   >   
   >   
   > Since I hate those UUIDs, I use labels instead.  :)   
   >   
   > $ head /etc/fstab   
   > LABEL=cauldron / ext4 acl,relatime 1 1   
   > LABEL=spare /spare ext4 defaults 1 2   
   > LABEL=accounts /accounts ext4 defaults 1 2   
   > LABEL=local /local ext4 defaults 1 2   
   > LABEL=mga3 /mga3 ext4 users,noauto,acl,relatime 1 2   
   > LABEL=misc /misc ext4 defaults 1 2   
   > none /proc proc users,noauto,defaults 0 0   
   > LABEL=swap swap swap defaults 0 0   
   > LABEL=mga4 /mga4 ext4 users,noauto,acl,relatime 1 2   
      
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