You have an extra field in your fstab line for /home.

/dev/sdb2 / /home ext4 defaults 0 2

Should be:

/dev/sdb2 /home ext4 defaults 0 2


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On Sunday, November 17, 2019 9:49 PM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote:

> > On this computer /dev/sdb is a 512GB SSD with two partitions, / of 50GB
> > and /home of 400GB (dev/sdb2). Of course, /home has tons of config
> > files for software, so failing to boot the GUI without a /home folder
> > is understandable. But why would the OS suddenly be unable to
> > find /home?
>
> Aha! I have a clue. My fstab contains the following lines of interest:
>
> /dev/sdb1 / ext4 defaults 0 1
> /dev/sdb2 / /home ext4 defaults 0 2
> 192.168.1.115:/volume1/Synology /media/jjjSynology nfs auto,user 0 0
>
> I also noticed an error message that it could not mount Synology. I
> didn't5 think it important at the time, but now it occurs to me that
> nothing other than / is being mounted. What could cause this?
>
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