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Subject: Re: What happened to /home?
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On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 03:01:11PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote:

> Today I booted my laptop and discovered that /home was gone.  Well...not
> exactly..but for all intents and purposes.  The system isn't seeing it
> although I can see it when I cd to /.  But if I try and cd to /home from
> there the system tells me "home:Not a directory."  What happened, and
> what can I do about it?

Sounds like you may have written a file over it - an empty file maybe.
Or something like that.

////jerry


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