From: spamtrap42@jacob21819.net   
      
   On 2013-11-21, Aragorn  wrote:   
   > On Thursday 21 November 2013 15:15, Jim Beard conveyed the following to   
   > alt.os.linux.mandriva...   
   >   
   >> On 11/21/2013 05:18 AM, faeychild wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> Finally overcame my laziness and fears.   
   >>> successfully edited the fstab and the partition now mount in the   
   >>> correct places.   
   >>> Thanks to all.   
   >>>   
   >>> But a small point . During boot the system hangs   
   >>>   
   >>> "waiting for device sdb2 to appear"   
   >>>   
   >>> and then   
   >>>   
   >>> "could not find resume device  "   
   >>>   
   >>> There was a sdb2 on the old disk but not the new one. There is no   
   >>> mention of sdb2  in fstab.   
   >>>   
   >>> where is coming from   
   >>   
   >> UNIX/Linux makes no use of sda2, sda3, sda4, with sda1 by default   
   >> usually the root partition and sda5 the swap partition.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >  /dev/sda1             295M   48M  247M  17% /boot   
   >  /dev/sda3              25G  6.1G   19G  25% /usr   
   >  /dev/sda5             744M  212K  744M   1% /usr/local   
   >  /dev/sda6             1.5G  160K  1.5G   1% /opt   
   >  /dev/sda7             5.9G  385M  5.5G   7% /var   
   >  /dev/sda8             489G  3.8G  485G   1% /home   
   >  /dev/sda9              40G  3.5G   36G   9% /srv   
   >  /dev/sda12            127G   42G   85G  34% /srv/mmedia/video   
   >   
   > Note that the above is only a snippet from the output of the df command   
   > on my machine.  The root filesystem is not in that list, because I have   
   > /etc/mtab as a symlink to /proc/self/mounts, and as such the root   
   > filesystem appears in the list twice; once as /dev/root and once simply   
   > as "rootfs".  Nevertheless, the root filesystem on this machine resides   
   > on /dev/sda2.   
   >   
   > Also note that the OP is talking of /dev/sdb2, which means that it's the   
   > /second/ primary partition on the /second/ hard disk.   
      
   Aragorn, I hope you intended that to be HTML rather than XML,   
   because it's missing the closing tag required by XML.  :-)   
      
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