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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:45:38 -0700 (MST)
From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: What happened to /home?
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On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, 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?

/home is (usually) a link to /usr/home.  If there was some problem that 
prevented /usr being mounted (power failure or crash with background 
fsck disabled), or you booted in single user mode, it would act that 
way.

Does df show /usr is mounted?

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA