It isn't home you want to mount, it's /, the root
filesystem.
I wanted /home as a place to copy log files to so I could then access
them from the windows box. I originally wanted to copy them to a USB stick, but I
couldn't get that to work.
I didn't know workstations nowadays had batteries. When the system is back on its
feet, I'll try to check that. It was bought in 2013.
Based on the "fdisk -l" output that I put into my post earlier today, am I
correct to conclude that my system uses a block device?
What's going on with the ACPI errors? Are those relevant in this situation?