Machine works fine turn off for the day, turn back and NO /brose/home dir? Dir is still there with nothing in it? Have to ctrl+c during startup, then run from root to get it to startup. What do you think happening? (suse10.1 i686) Reinstalling is getting old. Happens lots.

Well, the fact that you are logging in as root would explain why you don't see your own home directory. You are seeing roots home directory instead!

Why are you having to ctrl-c when booting? What are the errors? Were there any modifications made to the install last time before you shut down?

You shouldn't need to re-install lots. When you have an issue and present it to a forum, try to give as much pertinent information as possible.

Richard

Ctrl+c must be pressed or start-up freezes. When Ctrl+c is pressed startup continues to boot. With nothing inside /brose/home, No logs to say what went wrong. Do you think it matters I'm using SusE10.1 RC2? Need to trust that /home will be there when I reboot. Everything else is there, the dir, but nothing inside /home, all files been erased, plus it keeps the megs so I can't recover them. Just started a few months ago. Has this happened to anyone but me? Can I install with just a root user and no other users? If you need more info just ask. THANK you!

ok.

One step at a time.

It is important for you to describe at exactly what point you have to press ctrl-c.

Does the kernel start to load? What is it doing when it freezes?

What distro are you using?

Give us some useful information. At the moment we are pissing in the dark.

Do what youngri said. In addition to that, post the contents of the file /var/log/messages and /etc/fstab. Also post the output of the following command :

fdisk -l

BTW, did you create more than one partition and allocated one of the partition to hold the /home directory ? If yes, you probably got a corrupt filesystem on /home and thatz why the machine freezes at boot time and thatz why you see a an emty home partition. Ofcourse, this is a bllody wild guess. You have to put in a lot of details than writing something as cryptic as you did. Like youngri said: