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Hi again, @fixit7 :slight_smile:

You wrote:

You say that the "The fstab is messed up". Maybe you're saying that because you got the following warning when running sudo findmnt --verify: "[W] non-bind mount source /swap.img is a directory or regular file" ? If that's the case, I believe that you may proceed even with that particular warning (I usually use a swap partition, instead of a swap file, so I don't get that warning).

Nice. That's great :slight_smile:

OK. So, to do that, I would:

1. - Unmount the /media/andrew/26c126a6-290a-4019-a32b-f6bb290663ea in case it's mounted:

cd

sudo umount -v /media/andrew/26c126a6-290a-4019-a32b-f6bb290663ea

2. - Rename /media/andrew/26c126a6-290a-4019-a32b-f6bb290663ea to, for instance, /media/andrew/disk2 :

sudo mv -v /media/andrew/26c126a6-290a-4019-a32b-f6bb290663ea /media/andrew/disk2

3. - Change the ownership of the /media/andrew and the /media/andrew/disk2 directories so those directories get owned by the user andrew (based on your last message, it seems that andrew is the user you use in this new installation). To do that, you should use the following two commands (in sequence):

sudo chown -v andrew /media/andrew

sudo chown -v andrew /media/andrew/disk2

4. - Change the content of the /etc/fstab file to add the filesystem mounted in the /media/andrew/disk2 directory to the list of filesystems that should be mounted at boot. To do that, I would :

4.1. - First, create a backup of the existing /etc/fstab file:

sudo cp -piv /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.ORIG.$(date +%Y-%m-%d)

4.2. - Append a line with the desired mount to the /etc/fstab file. I believe you can enter the following command to do that:

sudo bash -c 'echo "UUID=af83b28c-743c-4496-bce3-f94f0977a608  /media/andrew/disk2  ext4 defaults 0 2" >> /etc/fstab'

4.3. - Verify that the new /etc/fstab is good. It should be good if a sudo findmnt --verify returns only the following warning (and no other warnings or errors):

$ sudo findmnt --verify
   [W] non-bind mount source /swap.img is a directory or regular file
   [W] your fstab has been modified, but systemd still uses the old version;
       use 'systemctl daemon-reload' to reload

0 parse errors, 0 errors, 2 warnings

4.4. - Assuming the output of sudo findmnt --verify was as described above, let's now make systemd use the new version of the /etc/fstab :

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

4.5 - Finally, let's mount all the fillesystems:

sudo mount -av

I hope this helps :slight_smile: Please, keep us posted!

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