<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br><br><br></div><div><br>On 1 Nov 2015, at 8:03 am, Mark Perkins <<a href="mailto:perkins1724@hotmail.com">perkins1724@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>On 31 Oct 2015, at 8:32 am, Hika van den Hoven <<a href="mailto:hikavdh@gmail.com">hikavdh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hoi Daryl,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Friday, October 30, 2015, 10:24:06 PM, you wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Greetings Mythizens, In the same way that I have my storage drives named</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>/media/storage and /media/storage2, is it OK to name my OS partitions</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>/dev/sda1 and /dev/sda6, and my swap /sda5?</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>I've set up a second OS partition and copied my original "fstab to the</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>second partition's /etc and now realize that the UUID is incorrect. So when</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>I correct that can I safely give names to other UUID's?</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Oh and in fstab you can use the literal name or LABEL=<the disklabel> or</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>UUID=<the UUID> you can find the actual names with the blkid command</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>see: man fstab</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Tot mails,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hika <a href="mailto:hikavdh@gmail.com">mailto:hikavdh@gmail.com</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>"Zonder hoop kun je niet leven</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Zonder leven is er geen hoop</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Het eeuwige dilemma</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>De lerende Mens</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>I'm quite confused as to what the intent / reasoning would be for this? Naming the OS partition as a device would seem to be obscuring it. Surely a name like 'Ubuntu Myth OS' would be more useful. Not sure it's a good habit to be using device names when not dealing with the hardware (ie when using the file system mount point).</span><br><span></span><br><span>I couldn't see how /dev/sda6 was at all similar convention to /mnt/storage.</span></div></blockquote><br><div>I should clarify this because it's badly worded. /dev/sda6 would normally be a partition. If the partition contains a filesystem it can be mounted on the computer to a location that you can access, like '/' which is root. Some mount points (like '/') are required for your OS to run so it can find the files it needs to run.</div><div><br></div><div>The key point is that you could change directory to '/' (try the command 'cd /') but you could not change directory to /dev/sda6 (try the command 'cd /dev/sda6').</div><div><br></div><div>/mnt/storage would normally be another file system mount point, so you could change directory ('cd /mnt/storage') into it and see / create files etc etc.</div><div><br></div><div>I would be interested in the output of your 'df -h'. On the left it should show your partitions. On the right it should show where the file systems on those partitions are mounted.</div><div><br></div><div>In terms of your original question: </div><div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">is it OK to name my OS partitions<br></span></font></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">/dev/sda1 and /dev/sda6, and my swap /sda5?</span></font></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><br></div><div>I suspect they already are, with emphasis that you asked about the *partition*, not the *filesystem*. </div></body></html>