From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 24 01:53:15 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 CADDF1065670 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:53:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remegius@comcast.net) Received: from QMTA12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.27.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B26C68FC12 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:53:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from OMTA17.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.73]) by QMTA12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Lpnr1d0031afHeLACptGp2; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:53:16 +0000 Received: from localhost ([67.180.204.190]) by OMTA17.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id LptF1d00B46zqiB8dptF5l; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:53:16 +0000 Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:53:21 -0800 From: Rem P Roberti To: Warren Block Message-ID: <20091224015321.GB1080@bsd.remdog.net> Mail-Followup-To: Warren Block , FreeBSD References: <20091223230111.GA1188@bsd.remdog.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: FreeBSD 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 01:53:15 -0000 On 2009.12.23 17:45:38 +0000, Warren Block wrote: > 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? Yep...it was mounted. Something definitely got hosed. I ran fsck on /usr and there were a number of problems. Finally was able to delete the troubled directory and reinstall. Thankfully there was nothing of importance in /home and I had everything backed up so that I could re-populate the newly created /home. Rem