Repairing the FSTAB

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.

Solution 1:

Many thanks to the anonymous contributor. Booted using my LiveUSB, mounted my internal HDD, opened Terminal and navigated to the HDD directory (cd /media/1eaa73bd-8758-4899-a4d2-2a992a2ea762/etc) and entered the gksudo command (gksudo gedit fstab). Overwrote the FSTAB file as suggested (with a few tweeks) and I am now in my own /home again!

# /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>
UUID=1eaa73bd-8758-4899-a4d2-2a992a2ea762   /                   ext4    errors=remount-ro                               0   1
UUID=f1d24581-7850-4a0f-93cd-7e4d24dade1d   none                swap    sw                                              0   0  
UUID=201821D41821AA2C                       /media/Winstuff     ntfs-3g quiet,defaults,locale=en_US.utf8,umask=0        0   0
UUID=A0C41DD1C41DAA94                       /media/MasterDisk   ntfs-3g quiet,defaults,locale=en_US.utf8,umask=0        0   0
UUID=0F26083D43D41058                       /media/MyDocuments  ntfs-3g quiet,defaults,locale=en_US.utf8,umask=0        0   0

Solution 2:

It should look something 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>
/dev/sda6       /home           ext4    errors=remount-ro    0  1
/dev/sda1       /media/Winstuff ntfs-3g quiet,defaults,locale=en_US.utf8,umask=0    0 0
/dev/sdb1       /media/Windows  ntfs-3g quiet,defaults,locale=en_US.utf8,umask=0    0 0
/dev/sdb5       /media/docs     ntfs-3g quiet,defaults,locale=en_US.utf8,umask=0    0 0
/dev/sdc1       /media/Elements ntfs-3g quiet,defaults,locale=en_US.utf8,umask=0    0 0
/dev/sdd1       /               vfat    errors=remount-ro    0  1