Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:43:35 -0900 From: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> Subject: Re: What happened to /home? Message-ID: <200912231543.35805.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> In-Reply-To: <4ad871310912231634t53ba7df2p830bf1befe50904e@mail.gmail.com> References: <20091223230111.GA1188@bsd.remdog.net> <20091223234013.GA1080@bsd.remdog.net> <4ad871310912231634t53ba7df2p830bf1befe50904e@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday 23 December 2009 15:34:39 Glen Barber wrote: > 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. > >> > 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 > > What does 'file /home' say? It is a symlink. What you really want to see is ls -l /home/. Note the trailing slash. -- Mel
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