How do I auto mount my partition?
partition entry is not quite correct ( /home is in /dev/sda2 ? ) :
you wrote:
/dev/sda /home ext4 defaults 0 0
( if you write like that then you should replace /dev/sda
with:
UUID=number-of-device
you can determine UUID-number with command: sudo blkid
)
but it could look like this too ( in older Linux-Versions):
/dev/sda /mnt/ext4 defaults 0 0
or like this:
/dev/sda /media/ext4 defaults 0 0
more is explained here :
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticallyMountPartitions
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingUUID
By /etc/fstabt
I assume you meant /etc/fstab
. The problem with your mount spec is probably that you want to mount a partition, where /dev/sda refers to the entire disk.
/dev/sda2 /home ext4 defaults 0 0
(as an example). List available partitions using sudo fdisk -l
. As dschinn1001 mentions, a UUID is more desirable than a disk/partition number. The corresponding entry in my own fstab runs:
UUID=xxx /home ext4 defaults 0 2
Worth mentioning, /home is where your user accounts live. You have been running apparently with /home sourced from somewhere else. Once you get /home mounting properly from a new partition at boot time, the old home directory will be buried.