On Sun, 17 Jan 2021 01:22:22 -0700, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:

> On my new installation, I have in my fstab:
> /dev/sda5		/home		ext4
> noatime		0 1
> 
> but on new installation /home doesn't mount by default, why?

What does syslog say? Is it even trying to mount, or trying and failing?
> 
> On new installation, I created a user without "-m" 
> useradd  -G users,wheel,audio -s /bin/bash thelma
> 
> added to fstab: 
> /dev/sda5		/home		ext4
> noatime		0 1
> 
> but it doesn't mount by default.
> xfce4 created new entry in /home  /thelma
> so I deleted the entry /thelma but manual mounting:  mount /dev/sda5
> /home does not create directory /thelma manually under /home
> 
> When I mount manually /dev/sda5  /home all data is there but but trying
> login as user "X" gets a black screen now.

Your user directory won't be created automatically when mounting.
/home/thelma has to exist and be owned by the correct user. Permission
errors could be caused by your recreating /home/thelma as root and not
changing ownership.

-- 
Neil Bothwick

WINDOWS: Will Install Needless Data On Whole System