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Subject: Re: What happened to /home?
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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?

- Pieter