From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 24 16:30:49 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 5330710656E3 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:30:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remegius@comcast.net) Received: from QMTA14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.27.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C3188FC0C for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:30:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from OMTA02.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.19]) by QMTA14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id M1kk1d0050QkzPwAE4Wprc; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:30:49 +0000 Received: from localhost ([67.180.204.190]) by OMTA02.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id M4Wo1d00L46zqiB8N4Wp7U; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:30:49 +0000 Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:30:55 -0800 From: Rem P Roberti To: Polytropon Message-ID: <20091224163055.GB1056@bsd.remdog.net> Mail-Followup-To: Polytropon , FreeBSD References: <20091223230111.GA1188@bsd.remdog.net> <20091224100652.35598f38.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091224100652.35598f38.freebsd@edvax.de> 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 16:30:49 -0000 > > I hope you won't see something like > > % cd mnt/poly > mnt/poly: Not a directory. > > % file mnt/poly > mnt/poly: cannot open `mnt/poly' (Bad file descriptor) > That is exactly what I saw, and nothing worked to try and fix the problem. So, as I indicated in an earlier post, I ran fsck -y on the /usr partition and was finally able to deep six /home. No real catastrophe because I had all of /home backed up. So, I just did a mkdir of /home and repopulated it. I'm still scratching my head as to what caused the initial problem. There was no power failure or anything like that. I remember that all of a sudden when I booted the laptop I got this message (I forgot to include this in my first post): FreeBSD/.i386 boot Default:0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader boot: Hardly the normal opening screen, and I had to hit enter to proceed. First time I did that that the computer booted OK, the second time it broke. The only thing that changed between the time of the normal boot and the problem is that I installed a USB hub to this old Compaq because it only has one USB port. Who knows. Rem