FW: /usr parition is empty!

[Jerry McAllister]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 03:54:32PM -0500, Bret J. Esquivel wrote:

> 
> From: Bret J. Esquivel [mailto:besquivel at immense.net] 
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 3:54 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at lists.freebsd.org
> Subject: /usr parition is empty!
> 
> Help!
> 
> I'm currently stumped at a client of mine. Their /usr partition on this 6.1
> box is completely empty. The problem arose when no one could login due to
> the fact that /usr/bin/login was missing. Does anyone have any advice or
> information about this? 
> 
> I rebooted to single-user mode and mounted /usr without problems. It is only
> empty. 

Well, I wonder if it once was too full and so they moved it somewhere
and either intended but failed to make a link or somehow the link
got overwritten so it can't find the stuff.

In otherwords, all the files and directory structure had been 
moved somewhere and there should be a link to it of the sort:
  ln -s /some/other/place /usr
but the link is missing.

If so, you just need to find out where it got put and
make the link for it.

Just one guess,

////jerry

> 
> Thank you very much in advance!
> 
> Bret Esquivel
> 
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