Killed /home during install of another distro

[Bruce Marshall]

On Sunday 29 July 2007, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> > In Ubuntu I have had a corruption of my /home partition, which resides
> > on sda4 of my Dell Inspiron laptop. Not knowing what to do, and with
> > no way to boot and google the situation, I played Y, Y, Y to all
> > fsck's questions. Now, /home is empty.

My first reaction to this is that you are looking at the 'mount point'  
for /home but nothing has been mounted.

Issue the 'mount' command all by itself and see if there is anything mounted 
at /home