While I was filling my fstab after installation I noticed a couple of things.
First a /dev/sdb* was used instead of UUID, which is a problem with removable drives.
Then while the installation instructions were calling for ext2 format, I took a chance and used ext4 and all is well till now.
the home had the form of:
/dev/sdc1 / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 1
when most other linux I know has something like
UUID=2029292 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
I am wondering why this is.
While looking for anything relative in the forum I saw this thread
https://forum.obarun.org/viewtopic.php?id=4&p=2 where the user had also installed on ext4.