Cannot create folder in /home

[BIGBLU]

Hi guys,

I just upgraded to Leopard recently and the first thing I noticed was that it simply deleted my /home/www folder without asking me first. Now I wanted to recreate it, but it doesn't work:

g5:/ mw$ cd /home
g5:home mw$ mkdir www
mkdir: www: Input/output error
g5:home mw$ sudo mkdir www
mkdir: www: Input/output error
g5:home mw$ sudo rm -R /home
rm: /home: Resource busy

Does anyone have an idea what is going on and how I could get back to using /home/www for my local web site hosting? This would be very convenient for me since I use the same folder structure on my productive web server.

Thanks a lot in advance!

Best regards

BIGBLU

 

[admiraldennis]

First of all, the contents of your /home folder were not deleted, just obscured by a mountpoint.

Here's what's going on:

As you may know, with the introduction of 10.5 Apple completely changed the way filesystems are automounted on the backend. In Leopard, '/home' is reserved for NFS and other network filesystems using autofs.

What does this mean for you? You should pick another 'www' directory. While /home/www may be the correct location on other operating systems, it is not appropriate on Mac OS X.

If you want to recover the files previous in your /home directory, this is possible, though somewhat complicated so I will refrain from explaining it unless you need me to.

 

[beix]

You can recover the previous content in the /home folder by doing the following in the terminal:


su
mv /home /home_my_last

Reboot the system, and you should be able to get back everything in it at "/home_my_last" folder.
Leopard will create a new empty /home.

I am still in the mid of figuring out how to take back the /home folder, and let Leopard use something like /lhome ...

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[ianm11]

You can find a work around here:
http://discussions.apple.com/messageview.jspa?messageID=5665487&stqc=true

I have used it without any issues.