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I am using arch duke 2007-05. I have installed a second 160 gig hdd. This changed the first drive with boot and home from sda to sdb. I want to name the partitions of the new drive to utilize it for storage, networking my home with home/group and a backup for important files. how do I name the partitions so as to find them in the directory/ tree? I tried naming sda2 home/group in fstab but when I booted up I got sda2 /home/group directory not found. Following is the fstab:
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# /etc/fstab: static file system information
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# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd udf ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/sdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb3 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sdb4 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda1 / ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda2 /home/group linux defaults 0 1
/dev/sda3 reiserfs defaults 0 1
/dev/sdc1 /mnt/usb auto noauto,users 0 0
/dev/sdd1 /mnt/usb auto noauto,users 0 0
When I booted up with the rescue disk I checked the partitions and the following is the info from that
sda1 nc primary linux ext2
sda2 primary linux
sda3 primary linux reiserfs
sdb1 boot nc primary linux ext2
sdb2 primary linux swap/ solaris
sdb3 primary linux ext3
sdb4 primary linux ext3
I could probably do it from the rescue disk, but I would erase all the data on the hdd and I really don't want to do that.
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Wow... That's quite icky. Why didn't you use a LVM (Logical Volume Manager)? Then all you would have to do is add the physical volume to the logical volume, then extend the /home partition or whatever from the logical volume.
Anyway, I think you need to mkdir /home/group. Why do you have two partitions mounted as root in fstab? And what's with /dev/sda3?
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I was trying to copy fstab example using the information from the partitions of hdd (sda). sda3 had no directory and the type of partition was reiserfs. sda1 had no directory . Looking at Logical Volume Manager, it seems I have to start over with loading then installing arch. The last time I tried this my data was wiped and I had to start all over installing programs and backup data and I am still not caught up to where I was.
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Using knoppix or another livecd you could boot the computer and use tune2fs -L volume-lable-here to label each partition and then use this to boot. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Per … ice_naming
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