/usr has vanished completely!

[Keith Sharp]

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.