[PLUG] What could cause /home partition not to be found

[Reid]

> And I absolutely hate the Linux system of assigning letters to drives as it finds them so you can never be sure what you're dealing with.

Are you able to use UUIDs in fstab instead? UUIDs don't change between boots. You can run `blkid <device>` to find the UUID.



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On Sunday, November 17, 2019 10:25 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 05:58:30 +0000
> Reid nrwahl at protonmail.com dijo:
>
> > > I also noticed an error message that it could not mount Synology
> >
> > While this could be due to a number of issues (e.g., inability to
> > connect to the NFS server or find the export there), I'm suspicious
> > about your mount point "/media/jjjSynology". Are the three j's
> > supposed to be there?
>
> Yes, Ubuntu makes a folder in /media for each user, and I am jjj.
>
> Regarding the extra / in the fstab line for /home, that is just a typo.
> I am having to use my desktop computer to get to the net, requiring me
> to retype what I see on the problem computer.
>
> However, I have discovered additional clues. There is a line in fstab
> to mount an external USB drive with the label Movies. I discovered that
> it was being mounted as /dev/sdb1. In other words, the line that is
> trying to mount /dev/sdb2 as /home is failing because the Movies drive
> has taken /dev/sdb.
>
> It is too late for me to think clearly, bu7t in the morning I am going
> to use a live GParted DVD to add a label to the /home partition, and
> then edit the line in fstab to reflect the change.
>
> And I absolutely hate the Linux system of assigning letters to drives
> as it finds them so you can never be sure what you're dealing with.