Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:34:39 -0500 From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What happened to /home? Message-ID: <4ad871310912231634t53ba7df2p830bf1befe50904e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20091223234013.GA1080@bsd.remdog.net> References: <20091223230111.GA1188@bsd.remdog.net> <200912240021.47525.pieter@degoeje.nl> <20091223234013.GA1080@bsd.remdog.net>
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Hi On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:40 PM, 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. =A0Well..= .not >> > exactly..but for all intents and purposes. =A0The system isn't seeing = it >> > although I can see it when I cd to /. =A0But if I try and cd to /home = from >> > there the system tells me "home:Not a directory." =A0What happened, an= d >> > 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 us= er, >> 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. =A0Output of 'ls -ld /home is: > > lrwxr-xr-x =A01 root wheel 8 Dec 18 12:08 /home -> usr/home > What does 'file /home' say? --=20 Glen Barber
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