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Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 17:37:53 +0530
From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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Subject: Re: /root mysteriously empty
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> Hi all,
> 
> 	Came in this morning to my 3.2-RELEASE box and found /root
> utterly empty.
> 
> Not even a '.cshrc' or '.profile' to be found.

This may sound silly, but can it be that your /root was actually
symlinked on some other filesystem (say /home/root) and you'd
unmounted that filesystem?

R.


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