Running SuSE 8.2 on my dual boot Pentium II I am quit happy with the setup of my system. I have three hard disks, two with 4 Meg, one with 1,2. On the small hd I have placed /home. On the first hd, half of it is used by DrDOS and the rest is taken up by /usr. On the second hd / is placed. This setup worked fine until today. As I still do a lot with drdos I regularly reboot, at least daily. During today reboot I got the message: that $HOME could not be used because it Went in as root and had a look at /home which showed up empty. /home was mounted, /dev/hdd1 was seen so I decided to do a reiserfsck. Got a lot of readable and hopefully usable files back in the lost+found. Questions. 1) How could it happen that a complete /home directory went missing? It could not have been a virus or worm because they do not work under dos. I have a dialup and cannot remember to have seen any unexpected activity (on gkrellm) during my relatively short time on the net (pay by the minute). And I have a firewall running. Forgot though which of the two offered during setup. 2) How do I reinstall my personal /home/cons back. Yast shows my personal settings. Delete them and start again? 3) What are the chances that this happens again? No big deal apart from some recoverable setup things but an annoyance. Would like to prevent another case ;-). -- NTReader v0.36w(P)/Beta (Registered) in conjunction with Net-Tamer.