Troubleshooting

When I installed OpenLinux, I already had a /home partition which I didn't tell LIZARD about (I was afraid LIZARD might accidentally format the partition). After the install, I added the fstab entry and mounted the partition. During install I added a user that I wanted to use for testing. Now that user doesn't have a home directory (I also can't find the httpd or ftp directories).

The new user directory you created (and the ftp and httpd directories) still exist, but you mounted /home on top of them. Here's one way to proceed:

  1. Change to single user mode and log in as root.

  2. Enter the command umount /home.

  3. cd to / and then run tar czvf home.tar.gz home. This will create the file home.tar.gz, which will be the contents of the new ...

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