I made a mistake in editing /etc/fstab/ to automount a disk. I marked /home for two of them, run mount -a and rebooted. It now boots into default desktop without access to my desktop and disks. How can I get it running back? Tia 
Have you tried editing /etc/fstab, fixing the problem and rebooting?
If you need to you can access a TTY using ctrl+alt+f3
Yes. I tried it before posting and the fstab file is blank (also in tty). Should I remake the file?
If all you did was edit /etc/fstab then you must have mounted over your /etc/ somehow.
I would boot off the live ISO, mount the root partition and see if /etc/fstab is visible there.
I would boot off the live ISO, mount the root partition and see if
/etc/fstabis visible there.
Yup its there. What do you think I should do next
Can you paste the contents of it here?
/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).
UUID=CF52-1460 /boot/efi vfat umask=0077 0 2
UUID=b441e1ae-0c00-4108-96bb-10e872f2b71c / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
UUID=3bc7d494-a1e4-4788-962a-7b7cec3d1e50 swap swap defaults,noatime 0 0
UUID=00caca7b-3ac4-44c1-a8bc-856c003aad16 /home ext4 nofail,user,noatime 0 1
Have you fixed it already? I don’t see any duplication there.
You probably shouldn’t be mounting /home with user or nofail.
I think I remembered it wrong about flagging duplicate. Was multitasking on a call.
I just found out that removing /home on second drive solved the problem
Change number 1 to 2 (end of line).
<fsck>sets the order for file system checks at boot time; see fsck(8). For the root device it should be1. For other partitions it should be2, or0to disable checking.
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