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==Introduction== | ==Introduction== | ||
My storage system was OK when I initially devised it, as it happens, the years have gone by & it had become inefficient & a bit messy. So, time for a makeover. | My storage system was OK when I initially devised it, as it happens, the years have gone by & it had become inefficient & a bit messy. So, time for a makeover. | ||
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As previously mentioned, this took 11 -> 12 hours. The larger the partition & the more data involved the longer it takes to process a partition. | As previously mentioned, this took 11 -> 12 hours. The larger the partition & the more data involved the longer it takes to process a partition. | ||
''begin rant:'' | ''begin rant:'' | ||
''As I harp on about in the forum with partition work, finish one job then setup the next job in your partitioning software. Don't give whatever software you are using a string of jobs to do & then tell it to do them all. Your time is valuable & your data is often too valuable to run the risk of corrupting it. Sometimes it is irreplaceable for those that don't backup (baby photos for instance.) /rant'' | ''As I harp on about in the forum with partition work, finish one job then setup the next job in your partitioning software. Don't give whatever software you are using a string of jobs to do & then tell it to do them all. Your time is valuable & your data is often too valuable to run the risk of corrupting it. Sometimes it is irreplaceable for those that don't backup (baby photos for instance.) /rant'' | ||
==Modifying the system to suit these changes== | ==Modifying the system to suit these changes== | ||
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Then in the Terminal I used the blkid command to get the UUID of the new /bdata partition so I could add a call to it into the /etc/fstab : | Then in the Terminal I used the blkid command to get the UUID of the new /bdata partition so I could add a call to it into the /etc/fstab : | ||
[handy@jarmano ~]$ blkid | [handy@jarmano ~]$ blkid | ||
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/dev/sda4: LABEL="my.home" UUID="b993339d-dbb3-4fbd-adb4-e61baf43cd7f" TYPE="ext4" | /dev/sda4: LABEL="my.home" UUID="b993339d-dbb3-4fbd-adb4-e61baf43cd7f" TYPE="ext4" | ||
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="store" UUID="05e6f212-4003-430b-a7d9-a53d98fad0b5" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="8cb60e1f-8d16-4d9c-bccc-3a2cd5396836" | /dev/sdb1: LABEL="store" UUID="05e6f212-4003-430b-a7d9-a53d98fad0b5" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="8cb60e1f-8d16-4d9c-bccc-3a2cd5396836" | ||
As you may have noticed, the new partition was given the /dev/sda2: spot (which once belonged to /swap) | As you may have noticed, the new partition was given the /dev/sda2: spot (which once belonged to /swap) | ||
I Copied the UUID for the new partition into /etc/fstab & created a call for this new partition, like so: | I Copied the UUID for the new partition into /etc/fstab & created a call for this new partition, like so: | ||
UUID=9fe95af9-529e-4f68-b83c-7fa9e7fb3ba1 /mnt/bdata ext4 defaults 0 1 | UUID=9fe95af9-529e-4f68-b83c-7fa9e7fb3ba1 /mnt/bdata ext4 defaults 0 1 | ||
Then as root I made the directory /mnt/bdata , so that the new partition is accessible. You can do this in the Terminal like so (replace <directory.name> with the name you want to call your new partition: | Then as root I made the directory /mnt/bdata , so that the new partition is accessible. You can do this in the Terminal like so (replace <directory.name> with the name you want to call your new partition: | ||
sudo mkdir /mnt/<directory.name> | sudo mkdir /mnt/<directory.name> | ||
Due to GParted doing its work with root permissions we need to change the ownership (owner:group) of the new partition, which we do by modifying the ownership of the directory name (that was created in the last command above) from root:root to <user.name>:users. To do that use the following Terminal command: | Due to GParted doing its work with root permissions we need to change the ownership (owner:group) of the new partition, which we do by modifying the ownership of the directory name (that was created in the last command above) from root:root to <user.name>:users. To do that use the following Terminal command: | ||
sudo chown <user.name>:users /mnt/<new.partition's.name> | sudo chown <user.name>:users /mnt/<new.partition's.name> | ||