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Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check

From	David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check
Date	2019-02-23 03:00 +0100
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On Fri 22 Feb 2019 at 14:20:05 (-0500), Michael Stone wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 11:36:28AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> > Before disconnection the power to the drives, I edited out their
> > lines in fstab. I disconnecting the power to sdb and sdc and
> > started the computer.  It booted for a few lines until it
> > encountered the line starting with 'start job fgfor device disk by
> > . . .' (at least that what i jotted down). then t\iot Then it
> > through the three HD's, two of which had the power unplugged) for
> > 1 minute and 30 seconds and then went on to tell me that I could
> > log on as root or ctrl-D to continue.  Ctrl-D didn't work so I
> > logged oh as root
> 
> It sounds like you didn't actually comment them out of fstab.

Well, that should be easy to check: reconnect the drives and boot
up the system "as normal". And while it's up, I would seriously
look at those mount point names; I agree, they are awful.
Create some nice new ones to use with your future disk(s).

Cheers,
David.

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Swapping Drives - Sanity Check "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-02-22 14:20 +0100
  Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-02-22 15:20 +0100
    Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-02-23 09:00 +0100
      Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-02-23 13:10 +0100
        Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-02-23 17:20 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-02-23 19:00 +0100
            Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-02-23 20:20 +0100
              Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-02-23 23:00 +0100
              Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-02-23 23:40 +0100
                Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-02-24 16:50 +0100
                Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-02-24 18:40 +0100
      Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-02-23 14:00 +0100
        Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-02-23 15:50 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-02-23 17:00 +0100
            Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-02-23 17:30 +0100
              Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-23 18:10 +0100
                Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-02-23 22:00 +0100
                Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-23 22:10 +0100
              Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-02-23 19:10 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-23 17:00 +0100
            Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-02-23 17:20 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-23 17:20 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-02-23 17:20 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2019-02-23 18:00 +0100
        Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-02-23 23:20 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-02-23 23:40 +0100
  Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-02-22 15:20 +0100
    Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-02-22 15:30 +0100
      Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-22 16:10 +0100
        Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-02-22 17:40 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-02-22 20:20 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-02-22 20:30 +0100
            Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-23 03:00 +0100
              Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2019-02-23 09:00 +0100
                Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-02-23 09:40 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-02-22 23:40 +0100

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