Take care when using UUIDs for partition moving etc etc

Hi folks
just a warning - particularly when moving / re-arrainging partitions which use a UUID for mounting e.g Linux fstab

I spent a fruitless (off and on) 3 hours trying to fix a system where I'd moved the /mome partition

in the /etc/fstab I had UUUID= in stead of UUID=

It's really easy to miss these sorts of errors !!!!

sometimes in VM's rather than re-install the OS you might want to move the / and /home (or any other partitions) -- I got a larger SSD for some VM's and rather than re-install the OS's I was messing around with partition management. Macrium works brilliantly to "Clone" the OS's to larger devices (virtual disks in this case)) -- but the fun part now comes with moving / re-allocating. It's not as easy as windows !!!!! but doable.

Anyway a decent learning experience - but to save other people time -- do take care and check the partition UUID's carefully !!!!.

Cheers
jimbo

And you were trying to move the /mome partition instead of the /home partition?

NavyLCDR said:

And you were trying to move the /mome partition instead of the /home partition?

Hi there

Nice one !!!!!!

Cheers
jimbo