Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:40:13 -0800 From: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> To: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What happened to /home? Message-ID: <20091223234013.GA1080@bsd.remdog.net> In-Reply-To: <200912240021.47525.pieter@degoeje.nl> References: <20091223230111.GA1188@bsd.remdog.net> <200912240021.47525.pieter@degoeje.nl>
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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 Rem
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