Running Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit on a system with 2 hard drives. System is dual boot: Win-10 & Xubuntu. The PC has 2 disk drives: a small boot flash drive with a 14.7 Gb Partition for Linux and a 169 Gb partition for Linux on the 2nd data drive.
Ubuntu installed itself completely to the 14.7 Gb Partition & that's where the $Home directory was mounted at /. Both OSes booted fine but the 2nd drive was left as 169 GB: unallocated space. Used GParted boot disk to set this 169 Gb as a primary partition formatted ext4 following the article Partitioning/Home/Moving to move my home to the new home on the "big" 169 GB partition.
All seemed to go well but then the 169 Gb partition "disappeared". I can still find it under blkid:
$ lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,LABEL,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT
NAME FSTYPE LABEL SIZE MOUNTPOINT
loop0 squashfs 27.1M /snap/snapd/7264
loop1 squashfs 55M /snap/core18/1754
loop2 squashfs 55M /snap/core18/1705
loop3 squashfs 54.8M /snap/gtk-common-themes/1502
loop4 squashfs 62.1M /snap/gtk-common-themes/1506
loop5 squashfs 17.9M /snap/gedit/537
loop6 squashfs 7.7M /snap/gedit/371
loop7 squashfs 160.2M /snap/gnome-3-28-1804/116
loop8 squashfs 27M /snap/snapd/6953
sda 119.2G
├─sda1 ntfs SSHD_boot 91.1G
├─sda2 ntfs 834M
├─sda3 1K
├─sda5 swap 12.6G
└─sda6 ext4 14.8G /
sdb 931.5G
├─sdb1 ntfs Sam 860 Evo 762.6G
└─sdb2 ext4 Sam Evo P2 169G /home
But when I try to mount it per my fstab, it simply isn't mounted. It is the sdb2 ext4 at the bottom of the listing.
Here's my /etc/fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda6 during installation
# original filesystem
UUID=377ba606-019e-4408-a5a8-832bab58f3bc / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# new 169 Gb partition label Sam Evo P2
UUID=295d54bd-8508-4dd8-83dc-80f950028d8d /home ext4 defaults 0 2
/swapfile none swap sw 0 0
The wiki "Moving Home" article seems to neglect mentioning exactly how to mount both partitions. The OS boot partition is under: sda6 while the new /home is under sdb2.
Any suggestions on how I can complete the move and load my new $Home partition?
Responding to the question about how I know my new partition is not mounted
Below is my Desktop. Before I edited fstab, it showed 3 filesystems: "Sam Evo P2" which is my 1TB Samsung Evo 860 drive: Partition 2 {ext4}. This partition was mounted under /home. It also showed the others: Sam 860 Evo + SSHD_boot } both of these are working fine as NTFS Windows partitions.
Now as you can see the "Sam Evo P2" is gone and hovering over File System shows I've used 98% of the 15.6 Gb.
However if I go into the filesystem /home/john then it appears that I've actually mounted that 169Gb partition {here it says 177.5 Gb}.
Note that /old_home is a copy of my home directory from when I only mounted the 15.6 Gb partition. Eventually I should delete it if my system works. Does this mean that my system is actually working???
