move a mountpoint

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#1

How can I change the mountpoint of my partition /media/documents to /documents.
This is a partition of sdb and a fixed disk.
The reason is that /media/ sometimes creates ghostdirectories while /Windows/C never does so, programmes writing/reading from this partition therfore don’t work if a ghostdir_ exists.
(BTW Suse is on sdb5 and sdb6. on sda is windows and used to be Ubuntu, the Suse-swap is sda5. Windows is out of use.)

I would like to mount this partition like the /Windows partition.

Can I just add the line below in fstab mounting /dev/sdb7 and if so doesn’t suse try to mount it again in /media. or should I use Yast partitioner?
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1600AAJB-22WRA0_WD-WCAS29171346-part7 /DOCUMENTS vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0

Below is my fstab file:[1] , the partition /media/documents [2] and the /Windows/C partition [3]
[1]
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1600AAJB-22WRA0_WD-WCAS29171346-part5 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1600AAJB-56WRA0_WD-WCAS2A656583-part5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1600AAJB-22WRA0_WD-WCAS29171346-part6 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1600AAJB-56WRA0_WD-WCAS2A656583-part1 /windows/C vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1600AAJB-56WRA0_WD-WCAS2A656583-part2 /windows/D vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0

[2] (copied from Yast - Partitioner )

Partition /dev/sdb7
Apparaat:
• Apparaat: /dev/sdb7
• Grootte: 109.43 GB
• Apparaatpad: pci-0000:00:0f.1-scsi-0:0:1:0-part7
• Apparaat-ID 1: ata-WDC_WD1600AAJB-22WRA0_WD-WCAS29171346-part7
Apparaat-ID 2: scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600AAJB-_WD-WCAS29171346-part7
• Gebruikt door:
• FS-ID: 0x0B Win95 FAT32
Bestandssysteem:
• Bestandssysteem: FAT
• Aankoppelpunt: /media/DOCUMENTEN
• Gekoppeld op: ID
• UUID: 4A6A-242E
• Label: DOCUMENTEN
• Versleuteld: Nee

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[3] from Yast partitioner sda1
Apparaat:
• Apparaat: /dev/sda1
• Grootte: 5.37 GB
• Apparaatpad: pci-0000:00:0f.1-scsi-0:0:0:0-part1
• Apparaat-ID 1: ata-WDC_WD1600AAJB-56WRA0_WD-WCAS2A656583-part1
Apparaat-ID 2: scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600AAJB-_WD-WCAS2A656583-part1
• Gebruikt door:
• FS-ID: 0x0B Win95 FAT32
Bestandssysteem:
• Bestandssysteem: FAT
• Aankoppelpunt: /windows/C
• Gekoppeld op: ID
• UUID: 780F-C5BA
• Label: WINDOWS
• Versleuteld: Nee

#2

Yes you can mount like:

/dev/sdb7 /path_to/mount_folder vfat   users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8 0 0

You need to have a folder existing to mount it to.

You can read all about it @swerdna’s site

openSUSE: HowTo set disk access permissions for Fat32 (VFAT) on a desktop PC

#3

And for some background I think you are missing:SDB:Basics of partitions, filesystems, mount points - openSUSE

#4

Thanks

I have succesfully changed the partitions mountpionts and moved the Swap partition.

#5

tip

For the swap partition also edit the resume= line in menu.lst to the new swap. otherwise suspend to disk does not work