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ln -s /mnt/DATA/Testing /home/username
sudo blkid -c /dev/nullcat /etc/fstabcat /etc/init/bind-home.confmountls -l /home/usernamels -l /mntls -l /mnt/DATA
Goldfinger, you wrote to add the following 2 lines to fstab file...# EFI System PartitionUUID=6E57-A726 /boot/efi vfat defaults 0 1I regret to say, goldfinger, that this didn't work...
On sdb, where I have tried to set up a shared DATA partition (that we are having difficulty in binding), it was formatted as ntfs on a GPT drive. I formatted in ntfs so that I could share data between both win8.1 and LL. It has just occurred to me that as sdb carries the flag 'msftdata', as a microsoft basic data partition, it might be protected by windows from being shared or bound to My Home Directory in LL..? What do you think?
It's worth noting that rebooting LL after a fresh install for a dual boot UEFI system also got stuck and hung indefinitely, when I ran the install so that /home and swap would go on on sdb (/ being on sda). In the end, the only UEFI win8.1/LL set up so far that has appeared to work for me is one where I exclude sdb, and have the two OSes with LL's home installed as root, all on sda. So could the msftdata flag be interfering???
In the good fully functioning copy that I have of the UEFI dual boot (fast boot & secure boot enabled), that I didn't attempt to install binding on, it works amazingly: the grub screen comes up almost immediately and both LL and win8.1 load from the grub menu in less than 6 seconds! It's the binding problem that's driving me absolutely crazy... I am still going to work on this but await further feedback from you on next steps... I wondered if you could reply on that thread for the binding, so that everything is kept together in one place.
lsblksudo blkid -c /dev/nullcat /etc/fstab[ -d /sys/firmware/efi ] && echo "EFI boot on HDD" || echo "Legacy boot on HDD"
Thanks Goldfinger, thanks Rob...I tried what you both suggested, but with no luck.If you are stuck too, I may just go for a single OS (LL2.4) install and have windows in a VM for when I need it
gksu leafpad /etc/fstab
# EFI System PartitionUUID=6E57-A726 /boot/efi vfat defaults 0 1
sudo chown -R username: /mnt/DATA
... I should add to reply#11 above that I did not delete the folders in /home before attempting binding. I can't see from my notes whether I should have done this or not, or is that something one only does with sym-linking, the alternative to binding?
powercfg -h off