And this is mine.
Don't know why it has UUID, while Jishnu's have /dev path.

*UUID=41b17fab-cd95-4a65-a79e-e1312a9f9c4a /home           ext4
defaults        0       2*

May be you can replace this UUID with yours and try.

Regards,
Balasankar C



2013/7/3 Jishnu <[email protected]>

> Following is fstab entry for my home partition. hope it might help.
>
> /dev/sda6 /home/jishnu ext3 nodev,nosuid 0 2
>
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Sasi Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I noticed today that as the machine boots up, it gives an error:
> >
> > Failed to identify file system type defaults
> >
> > So, it looks like the system has taken "defaults" as the filesystem type,
> > though I don't understand why. If ai remember right, the fstab line for
> home
> > has always been like:
> >
> > /dev/sdb5 /home defaults 1 2
> >
> > If I change the line to:
> >
> > /dev/sdb5 /home rw,user,auto 1 2
> >
> > the error becomes:
> >
> > Failed to identify file system type noaiuto
> >
> > Does this give anyone any idea what the problem could be?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Sasi
> >
> >
> > On 28 June 2013 22:38, Balasankar Chelamattath <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Sir,
> >>
> >> This is the official documentation by Ubuntu on that topic. I believe it
> >> would apply to Debian also. It involves editing the fstab file. Please
> try
> >> it.
> >> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving
> >>
> >> PS: If you have already tried that, apologies.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Balasankar C
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 2013/6/28 Sasi Kumar <[email protected]>
> >>>
> >>> Dear friends,
> >>>
> >>> I have recently installed Debian Wheezy base with applications from
> >>> testing. As I usually do, I opted not to use my /home partition while
> >>> installing. Instead, I added the home partition to fstab with the
> following
> >>> line:
> >>>
> >>> /dev/sdb5       /home   defaults        1       2
> >>>
> >>> Now I find that the partition is not mounted when I login. Instead, I
> >>> have to mount it manually every time. Does anyone know why this
> happens and
> >>> how it can be rectified?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks and regards,
> >>> Sasi
> >>>
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