From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 24 00:34:40 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 6DB90106568D for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:34:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f227.google.com (mail-fx0-f227.google.com [209.85.220.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 035B08FC18 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:34:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm27 with SMTP id 27so8000763fxm.3 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:34:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=r97E1OsXaIqSDUm3TUwvA0/cCRi9VHnvQCqSCHEUsys=; b=YTBnTgYlGmjpeVHsMJ6pPV29Im4nNi/CBDp+P1LZwuOjwajHENvzNCU8mBTszV756J JzSKZIDvlHP6s8TYsJkLM7MiFHgZcTeIGA0MdhTqwQiWhxqRWKVOJqbk79FZ/YFX504l Wg5CAMbEOT44sy6POX+Qxr3sWreHG7H8SGJgw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=KVE+YnSoTBMH42pdedAUJDEXzM7K5hT6yYUPb2V09THcOw8MQyIFhZFnNnPDt+DVqV Z6OkviZ+ZCDLUXcm3kOsG4V6x2FZfeEY+MpYz6xoc7zraPlAnXIcgDbkZH4WxbvqrHxM 3u+e07TwItu3bn0vGMtjAHi2qonK2w2AH/y5w= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.15.11 with SMTP id i11mr5009376faa.105.1261614879087; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:34:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20091223234013.GA1080@bsd.remdog.net> References: <20091223230111.GA1188@bsd.remdog.net> <200912240021.47525.pieter@degoeje.nl> <20091223234013.GA1080@bsd.remdog.net> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:34:39 -0500 Message-ID: <4ad871310912231634t53ba7df2p830bf1befe50904e@mail.gmail.com> From: Glen Barber To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 00:34:40 -0000 Hi On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Rem P Roberti 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