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I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 on VMware workstation 12 (my host OS is Win10). When I installed Ubuntu I made the Hard Disk of 20 GB but later I expanded it to 50 GB. So, that expanded 30 GB now appear as a new partition. My problem is when I mount it, it is mounted at enter image description here

/media/username/0d780fd1-5c53-4ad4-b7ea-bdae88aad04a

with a random number sequence. so whenever I needed to go that partition in terminal I have to copy-paste that long sequence and it is really painful to do that every time.

Is there any way to turn this long number sequence into a text? (I mean something like a label, say "newpart", so I can use cd /media/username/newpart to move into it).

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  • Have you tried mounting the partition in question via /etc/fstab? Have you seen https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab – Elder Geek Dec 02 '15 at 16:02

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We can assign a label to any partition which will then be mounted to /media/username/<label.

In case we need permanent access to the drive we may want to consider mounting them to a defined mountpoint (i.e. a directory we need to create first). The partition will be automatically mounted when defined by an entry to /etc/fstab

UUID=<uuid>    <mountpoint>    ext4    defaults   0  2

By this we may create symbolic links in our HOME to directories on that extra partition, or we may move our entire HOME to there.

Consider to make a snapshot before experimenting with partitions and mount points to be able to quickly revert in case something goes wrong.

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