On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 08:53:56AM -0500, Nitebirdz wrote:
>
> > Check out the contents of the /etc/fstab file and also the output of the
> > "mount -a" command. There is a chance that you accidentally mounted
> > something on top of the /home directory, therefore making it
> > disappear. Other than that, you can also use "locate [homedir]" where
> > homedir is perhaps the username of one of the users in your box just in
> > case the contents of /home have been moved somewhere else.
>
> "locate [homedir]" will only work if the system has been up
> long enough for the locate database to have been updated. Using
> find may take longer, but it doesn't depend on some database.
>
updatedb will fix that, by the way.
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