Looks like your /home partition was being equated as /hda7 - which makes sense. umount /dev/hda7 mkdir /home mount -t ext3 (or whatever it is) /dev/hda7 /home df -k vi /etc/passwd ls -al ~joe ls -al ~pattie You can change the mount point via /etc/fstab You can change the users home via /etc/passwd Be sure to chown/chgrp all the files to their corresponding users cd ~joe | chown -R joe:joe * cd ~pattie | chown -R pattie:pattie * On 4/20/09, Josef Lowder wrote: > Thanks Craig. I can't imagine how this could have come about > as I know that hda7 was originally specified as just "/home" > > But I really appreciate your response and guidance. > > On 4/20/09, Craig White wrote: >> it appears that you have mounted /dev/hda7 as /home/joe rather than >> just /home >> >> if you haven't created anything else (i.e., users, in /home, you could >> probably just change the mount point in /etc/fstab and >> 'umount /home/joe' and 'mount -a' and everything would be fixed. You >> would of course want users named joe and patti and if you haven't >> already created them, you could figure out which uid number they had >> previously... >> >> ls -ldn /home/joe/* >> >> and their user & group numbers from your old system should be displayed. >> >> Then you could create them again with a 'useradd' command like, >> >> useradd -u 501(or ??) -g 501(or ??) >> >> type 'useradd --help' for information. >> >> Craig >> >> >> -- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and >> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >> believed to be clean. >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- www.obnosis.com (503)754-4452 "Contradictions do not exist." A. Rand --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss