08-20-2014, 09:37 AM
Dear gold_finger,
Yes, your understanding is exactly right, After the conversion of sdb3 to NTFS format and restarted the system, it does not boot from USB HDD after the Grub screen, Here is the output from the system as requested by you after booting through LL CD
Yes, your understanding is exactly right, After the conversion of sdb3 to NTFS format and restarted the system, it does not boot from USB HDD after the Grub screen, Here is the output from the system as requested by you after booting through LL CD
Code:
linux@linux:~$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 232.9G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 125.5M 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 12.2G 0 part
├─sda3 8:3 0 102.9G 0 part
├─sda4 8:4 0 1K 0 part
└─sda5 8:5 0 117.7G 0 part
sdb 8:16 0 465.8G 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 0 1K 0 part
├─sdb2 8:18 0 59.6G 0 part /mnt
├─sdb3 8:19 0 305.6G 0 part
├─sdb5 8:21 0 7.5G 0 part [SWAP]
└─sdb6 8:22 0 93.1G 0 part
sr0 11:0 1 700M 0 rom /cdrom
loop0 7:0 0 668.3M 1 loop /rofs
linux@linux:~$ sudo parted -l
Model: ATA WDC WD2500BEKT-7 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 250GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32.3kB 132MB 132MB primary fat16 diag
2 134MB 13.2GB 13.0GB primary ntfs boot
3 13.2GB 124GB 110GB primary ntfs
4 124GB 250GB 126GB extended
5 124GB 250GB 126GB logical ntfs
Model: Seagate Portable (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
2 1049kB 64.0GB 64.0GB primary ext4 boot
1 64.0GB 172GB 108GB extended
5 64.0GB 72.0GB 7999MB logical linux-swap(v1)
6 72.0GB 172GB 100GB logical ext4
3 172GB 500GB 328GB primary ntfs
Warning: Unable to open /dev/sr0 read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sr0
has been opened read-only.
Error: Invalid partition table - recursive partition on /dev/sr0.
Ignore/Cancel? i
Model: PLDS DVD+-RW DS-8A5SH (scsi)
Disk /dev/sr0: 734MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 2048B/2048B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
linux@linux:~$ sudo blkid -c /dev/null
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sda1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="DellUtility" UUID="07DB-011B" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="RECOVERY" UUID="663EC66B3EC633B9" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda3: LABEL="OS" UUID="0E58C90F58C8F68D" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: UUID="30D748C43DA76362" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sr0: LABEL="Linux Lite 2.0 64-bit" TYPE="iso9660"
/dev/sdb2: UUID="13ea928f-6d38-445e-b3b7-c06760ec9fea" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdb3: UUID="6B6D529C3C948BA7" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdb5: UUID="01dae284-d8de-4c09-bea1-2759ea815dc4" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdb6: UUID="0278cd76-2f6f-44fa-bb27-87602c6c6332" TYPE="ext4"
linux@linux:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt
mount: /dev/sdb2 already mounted or /mnt busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/sdb2 is already mounted on /mnt
linux@linux:~$ cat /mnt/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/sdb2 during installation
UUID=13ea928f-6d38-445e-b3b7-c06760ec9fea / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sdb6 during installation
UUID=0278cd76-2f6f-44fa-bb27-87602c6c6332 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sdb5 during installation
UUID=01dae284-d8de-4c09-bea1-2759ea815dc4 none swap sw 0 0
linux@linux:~$