I recently changed my /home to another partition and after it caused problems (I had it formatted as NTFS) I wish to change it back to it's original location. I changed the FSTAB listing for /home to use the UUID for the ext4 partition but it still causes problems. On startup I get "unable to mount /dev/sda5" and "unable to mount /dev/sdc5". I push 'S' to skip and get to the login screen where I can sometimes log into my session and sometimes the screen goes black then back to the login screen. I am now making this post using the Guest account.

BLKID gives the following info:

/dev/sda1: LABEL="Additional Windows Stuff" UUID="201821D41821AA2C" TYPE="ntfs" 

/dev/sda5: UUID="f1d24581-7850-4a0f-93cd-7e4d24dade1d" TYPE="swap" 

/dev/sda6: UUID="1eaa73bd-8758-4899-a4d2-2a992a2ea762" TYPE="ext4" 

/dev/sdb1: LABEL="Master Disk" UUID="A0C41DD1C41DAA94" TYPE="ntfs" 

/dev/sdb5: LABEL="My Documents" UUID="0F26083D43D41058" TYPE="ntfs" 

/dev/sdc1: LABEL="Elements" UUID="CAB427ABB4279949" TYPE="ntfs" 

/dev/sdd1: LABEL="UBUNTU11-10" UUID="19EC-2249" TYPE="vfat" 

• SDA1 is in physical position of IDE0 and so has GRUB and some other stuff on it.


• SDA5 is my Swap partition.


• SDA6 is my Ubuntu install and where I'm trying to return my /home to.


• SDB1 is in physical position of IDE1 and has my Windows install.


• SDB5 is where I moved /home to for a short time.


• SDC1 is a USB drive.


• SDD1 is my LiveUSB install drive with 11.10 on it.

Currently my FSTAB file looks like this:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.

#

# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a

# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices

# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).

#

# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>

proc                                       /proc           proc  nodev,noexec,nosuid       0  0  

# / was on /dev/sdc6 during installation

UUID=1eaa73bd-8758-4899-a4d2-2a992a2ea762  /               ext4  defaults                  0  1  

# swap was on /dev/sdc7 during installation

UUID=92f46648-958f-40a1-b96b-607081c063a7  none            swap  sw                        0  0  

/dev/fd0                                   /media/floppy0  auto  rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8  0  0  

/dev/sdb2                                  /home           ntfs  defaults                  0  0  

/dev/sdb1                                  /media/sdb1     ntfs  defaults                  0  0  

/dev/sda5                                  /media/sda5     ntfs  defaults                  0  0  

/dev/sdc5                                  /media/sdc5     ntfs  defaults                  0  0  

/dev/sdb5                                  /media/sdb5     swap  defaults                  0  0  

/dev/sdd1                                  /media/sdd1     vfat  defaults                  0  0 

Is there a way to completly start from scratch without stuffing the system or will I have to manually remount the affected drives? I don't mind re-installing if I have too, but who enjoys that? Once fixed, I think I will use simlinks to merge my 'My Documents' and /home!

I am a Windows veteran but a Linux numpty!

I do have 'Storage Device Manager' installed.