Empty home folder

I recently installed Ubuntu Desktop 23.04 on my computer. I have 2 hard drives: 500 GB and a 2 TB. Thinking I would have plenty of room for my videos and images I set the large drive to be /home

I log into the freshly installed OS. I set a few basic settings such as mirroring my 2 monitors. My settings don't save.

Next I realize my applications don't run. For example I try to run the Firefox web browser it acts like it will run with the spinning curser image. But it doesn't open up, no error message.

I open file explorer and see my /home folder is empty. I expect to see /home/dave I think this is my problem. My home folder is where my settings should be saved.

I investigate further with the following commands:

dave@ubuntu2023:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /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>
# / was on /dev/sda3 during curtin installation
/dev/disk/by-uuid/4feb52ca-71b4-4463-b2cf-f7aece53b290 / ext4 defaults 0 1
# /boot was on /dev/sda2 during curtin installation
/dev/disk/by-uuid/c0b95236-d0e5-423d-b1e9-80c511ed5a87 /boot ext4 defaults 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sdb1 during curtin installation
/dev/disk/by-uuid/ffdfa468-05e1-45d5-83d3-9518bddbc3c5 /home ext4 defaults 0 1
/swap.imgnoneswapsw00
dave@ubuntu2023:~$ lsblk -e 7 -o name,fstype,size,fsused,label,partlabel,mountpoint,parttype
NAME FSTYPE SIZE FSUSED LABEL PARTLABEL MOUNTPOINT PARTTYPE
sda 465.8G
sda1
1M 21686148-6449-6e6f-744e-656564454649
sda2
ext4 512M 180.8M /boot 0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4
sda3
ext4 465.3G 13G / 0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4
sdb 1.8T
sdb1
ext4 1.8T 2M /home 0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4
sdc 0B
sdd 0B
sde 0B
sdf 0B
sdg 0B

dave@ubuntu2023:~$ getent passwd dave
dave:x:1000:1000: David Norman:/home/dave:/bin/bash
dave@ubuntu2023:~$

/dev/disk/by-uuid/c0b95236-d0e5-423d-b1e9-80c511ed5a87 /boot ext4 defaults 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sdb1 during curtin installation
/dev/disk/by-uuid/ffdfa468-05e1-45d5-83d3-9518bddbc3c5 /home ext4 defaults 0 1
/swap.imgnoneswapsw00
dave@ubuntu2023:~$ pwd
/home/dave

So it looks like I do have a home drive /home/dave
My 2 TB drive has a "home" folder but it's not the folder with my home folder in it.
It looks like maybe I need to reinstall. I can't remember the exact options but I did the partitioning during the OS install.
Here's how I set the partitions:
1 MB BIOS Boot Partition
512MB Boot
rest of the drive is root /
large (2TB) separate drive is /home

When I set the 2TB drive I was asked for the mountpoint. I think I set it to /home