Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:11:12 -0800 From: Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What happened to /home? Message-ID: <20091224071112.GC25393@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <87vdfwhoen.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <20091223230111.GA1188@bsd.remdog.net> <200912240021.47525.pieter@degoeje.nl> <20091223234013.GA1080@bsd.remdog.net> <87vdfwhoen.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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On Wed 23 Dec 2009 at 22:33:20 PST Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:40:13 -0800, Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> 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?
>>>
>>> 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
>
>That's your problem right there. /home does not point to the absolute
>path of '/usr/home' but to a *relative* path starting at whatever
>happens to be your current directory when you access '/home'.
Are you sure about that?
On my FreeBSD 8 system, I just tried this:
cd /etc
ls /home/ckester
and the result was a listing of my home directory, not some directory
under /etc.
Yet the result of ls -ld /home on my system is the same as above.
The symlink named "home" is found in the root directory "/" and the
relative path usr/home is apparently relative to that root directory,
not the current directory.
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