On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 21:46 +0000, Paul F. Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > > On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 07:33:34PM +0000, Paul wrote: > > > My entire /usr directory is completely empty! It was working, I did a > > > reset and on restart, I started to get all sorts of errors, the drives > > > didn't mount and on checking, /usr is devoid of absolutely everything! > > > > Is /usr empty because it didn't mount. Don't panic until you've checked > > the partition tables and fsck > > Everything other than /usr is fine. The only thing which doesn't look right is > that in fstab, the line for user is LABEL=/usr, whereas everything else is > /var (and so on). > > How do I check the partition tables? Remember, I have nothing in /usr All the tools you would need in this sort of situation are in /sbin and /bin. Check to see what partitions should be mounted where: /bin/cat /etc/fstab And then look and see what you actually have mounted: /bin/cat /proc/mounts What you discover will define what you need to do next... Keith.