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 with a swap partition and a ext2 /boot partition. 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: The following installation problem was detected while trying to start KDE No write access to $HOME directory (/) KDE is unable to start 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?