From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 24 00:43:42 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EF82106566C for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:43:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3F9E8FC1B for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:43:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smoochies.rachie.is-a-geek.net (mailhub.lan.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.11]) by mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C05E17E821; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:43:40 -0900 (AKST) From: Mel Flynn To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:43:35 -0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (FreeBSD/8.0-STABLE; KDE/4.3.1; i386; ; ) References: <20091223230111.GA1188@bsd.remdog.net> <20091223234013.GA1080@bsd.remdog.net> <4ad871310912231634t53ba7df2p830bf1befe50904e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ad871310912231634t53ba7df2p830bf1befe50904e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200912231543.35805.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> Cc: Glen Barber Subject: Re: What happened to /home? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:43:42 -0000 On Wednesday 23 December 2009 15:34:39 Glen Barber wrote: > Hi > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: > > On 2009.12.24 00:21:47 +0000, Pieter de Goeje wrote: > >> On Thursday 24 December 2009 00:01:11 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? > >> > > >> > Rem > >> > >> Usually /home is a symlink to /usr/home. Perhaps the symlink is busted? > >> What it the output of `ls -ld /home' ? If you can still login as a > >> regular user, what does `pwd -P' say just after you are logged in? > > > > I can still login as regular user, and when I run 'pwd -P' the output is > > / and then it goes back to the prompt. Output of 'ls -ld /home is: > > > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 Dec 18 12:08 /home -> usr/home > > What does 'file /home' say? It is a symlink. What you really want to see is ls -l /home/. Note the trailing slash. -- Mel