Comment 55 for bug 439604

Above, Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote on 2009-10-10:

     "Effectively, this is by design; filesystems that aren't required to bring up the desktop should not block the desktop, they should be handled in parallel."

My boot disk partition is DB001_F1, which contains the system files and ${HOME} directory.

However, my installation is configured such that the all the other directories under the ${HOME} directory are on a second partition, namely

     Desktop -> /DB001_F2/home/ericthered.Desktop

Not every time, but often enough, when I do a pushbutton boot (cold) or a warm boot (restart), it appears that the system mounts the ${HOME} directory as if it were my Desktop, and I have to rebuild my Desktop from scratch (please don't ask me the steps, because I always have to muddle thru to get it back to how I want it.

Is there some setting, configuration or switch that I can set to force the boot process to wait until it can access all disks properly, BEFORE it attempts to build the GDM environment ?

System: Host: OasisMega1 Kernel: 5.4.0-67-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: MATE 1.24.0
           Distro: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (Focal Fossa)

Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M4A78-E v: Rev 1.xx serial: 101048580000313
           BIOS: American Megatrends v: 2603 date: 04/13/2011

CPU: Quad Core: AMD Phenom II X4 810 type: MCP speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/2600 MHz

Graphics: Device-1: AMD RS780D [Radeon HD 3300] driver: radeon v: kernel
           Display: server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa
           resolution: 1440x900~60Hz
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RS780 (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.4.0-67-generic LLVM 11.0.0) v: 3.3 Mesa 20.2.6

Info: Processes: 248 Uptime: 24m Memory: 2.92 GiB used: 1.24 GiB (42.5%) Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.38

 Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

 /dev/sdb3 192G 16G 167G 9% /

 /dev/sdb7 289G 153G 122G 56% /DB001_F2
 /dev/sdb8 289G 246G 29G 90% /DB001_F3
 /dev/sdb9 289G 258G 17G 95% /DB001_F4
 /dev/sdb12 193G 29G 154G 16% /DB001_F5
 /dev/sdb13 193G 149G 35G 82% /DB001_F6
 /dev/sdb14 289G 166G 109G 61% /DB001_F7
 /dev/sdb4 92G 35G 53G 40% /DB001_F8

 /dev/sdc2 99G 60M 94G 1% /site/DB003_F1
 /dev/sdc3 357G 67M 338G 1% /site/DB003_F2

 /dev/sda2 108G 7.0G 96G 7% /site/DB004_F1

Thank you.