How to mount a partition on the root directory (for example /data)
I don't know what should prevent you from mounting that partition just under root. The command would be sudo mount /dev/sda1 /data
, where /dev/sda1
is the partition. Unmount via sudo umount /data
.
To mount on startup add the following line to /etc/fstab
:
/dev/sda1 /data <partition type> defaults 0 0
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dac
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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dac over 1 year
I am installing Ubuntu on my empty hard drive and I would like to have a separate partition on which I would store my data, like movies, music, documents, etc.
I don't like the idea of putting those files in
/home/user
directory because I would have multiple users on my computer and I want them all to easily access those files. I might also have multiple operating systems on my computer.Now, the idea is, I would like that partition to be mounted on something like
/data
, instead of/media/data
.Is that safe, and how can I do that?
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SaintWacko over 11 years@dac - Take a look at this. Edit: Oh... er... Just saw that alnkpa already answered that...