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Adding a Second (Backup) Drive (drive2)

Posted 07-06-2023 at 02:15 PM by beachboy2
Updated 07-07-2023 at 08:29 AM by beachboy2

Note: If you do not have gedit installed, then install it using:

Code:

sudo apt install gedit

Alternatively, use nano or vim or vi or other text editor instead of gedit.

Then modify your particular UUID settings and username etc using the following procedure:

1. Find the UUID of HDD (drive2) using:

Code:

sudo blkid

NB The blkid results will show /dev/sda* as the main drive partitions and usually /dev/sdb1 refers to...

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The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sda2..Set the RESUME variable

Posted 02-27-2020 at 02:07 AM by beachboy2

Tags initramfs, override, resume, uuid, variable

Whilst moving from Linux Mint MATE 18.3 to 19.3 and preserving my Home partition (see another of my blogs), I was surprised to see this warning:

Code:

I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sda2
I:     UUID=948396b3-f329-4b5a-9771-1464ff25eca9
I: Set the RESUME variable to override this.

The solution is to add the UUID to this file:

/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume

using the following command:

...

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uuidfstab - Convert fstab contents to a format that uses UUID instead of /dev paths.

Posted 09-04-2012 at 09:09 PM by konsolebox
Updated 05-27-2018 at 03:10 PM by konsolebox

Tags bash, fstab, script, uuid

This script helps a user or admin to automatically convert items in fstab so that they would use UUIDs instead.

uuidfstab[.sh]

Code:

#!/bin/bash

function error {
	echo "$1" >&2
	exit 1
}

function show_usage_and_exit {
	error "Usage: $0 <path_to_fstab_file> [<new_fstab_file>]"
}

function process {
	local FSTABFILE=$1 NEWFSTABFILE=$2 LINE DEVICE TEMPFILE

...

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