On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 02:13:58PM +0000, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Apart from fixing that, what's left to do is to disconnect and remove the > 500GB hard disk, move the SSD to the hard disk's SATA port so it is > /dev/sda
Where do you depend upon it being /dev/sda? I'd strongly recommend using filesystem labels (change an existing ext2,3,4 filesystem label with e2label, other FS have similar tools) and UUIDs for identifying drives/partitions in config files. In /etc/fstab, you can use LABEL=foo or UUID=xxxxx where you would normally use a path to the device; elsewhere (e.g. systemd units) you can use a path such as /dev/disk/by-label/foo or /dev/disk/by-uuid/xxxxx. Try to use non-ambiguous labels. If there's any chance of you mixing drives from this machine and another, I would put e.g. the hostname into the label (so your /boot is somehostname_boot and should you put this drive in another machine to read it in the future, it won't clash with that machine's boot partition label. Assuming you use different hostnames :)) > modify grub.cfg to reflect the move and to remove the hard-disk > boot menu items which grub-mkconfig, trying to be helpful, generated. Unless you have customized your grub config, they should automatically disappear after you've removed those drives and re-ran update-grub2. It should also be working off UUIDs rather than device names like /dev/sda too, mind... > But I'm basically there apart from my question above about the permissions > of /media. mine is just drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 May 5 17:09 /media -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.
