Problems with /home

2007-12-25 12:00:00

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I am having problems with my /home, I cannot create any dir under /home

and even useradd -m won't work. Whenever I tried to create a dir at /home,

it gives me a message saying that mkdir: Failed to make directory "lamj";

Operation not applicable.

I checked my mkdir with another dir and it's ok, it's just the /home dir.

The /home dir permission is dr-xr-xr-x. Owner is root and I did everything

from root.

Since I am getting this problem, I wanted to delete that dir and start

another /home, rm -rf /home will give me Unable to remove directory /home:

device busy. This happens even when /home is empty.

An suggestion would be appreciated. I will post a Summary.

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THANKS to all those that responsed.

John Mendenhall

Eugene Kramer (Thanks for your fast response)

Richard Skelton

Richard pointed me to a valuable resource.

This problem is caused by automounter. Solaris was designed to load

/etc/rc2.d/Sxxautofs at start up time to mount NFS to /home so that the

whole network can share one /home. But this is not good for small network

or standalone. So the possible solution to this would be to stop the

autofs or change the name of SXXautofs to sXXautofs.

Jason Lam

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