I tried the below moving and remounting.........same probs.

I also tried some e2fstools, but I ended up hosing the partition
in the process. 

Fortunately most of my stuff was in CVS, and done a commit just recently.
I just pulled everything off a 3 week old backup, and then cvs update.
Couple things lost, but nothin important.

Would sure like to know how to fix for in the future.
> 
> So /home is a file?  What's in it?
> 
> mv /home /home-as-file
> mkdir /home
> mount /dev/hda6 /home
> 
> ???
> 
> If that doesn't work, can you mount it someplace else?  There are some
> recovery tools worst case.  e2fstools?  If all else fails 
> 'strings /dev/hda6' and run for the hills.  :-)
> 
> YMMV.  Significantly.
> 
> David
> 
> /Home, /home on the /ro-ooot,
> whereis deer && antelope play,
> !whereis <</dev/audio | audiogrep 'pshaw',
> ...
> 
> right, time to go to sleep.
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