Problem Solved..:D:D:D What i have to do just remove the /etc/mtab after that reboot the system..:D:D:D Voila.. the system back to normal, and i can accessed the /home..:D:D:D <div> On 9/22/07, Suhendri <<a href="mailto:demang@gmail.com">demang@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div>Hi All.. My Desktop was ubuntu-edgy installed. I've splitted my harddisk to 3 partitions, as /, /home and swap file. Since yesterday morning i cannot logging in to my desktop..<img alt="" title="Sad" border="0"> The system looks normal from startup to logon screen appear. So i start boot my desktop with recovery mode, i found this weirdness : cannot initialize /etc/mtab after logon using terminal mode using root password, seems everything OK. but when i changed directory to /home, that folder empty..<img alt="" title="Confused" border="0"> I shocked.. cause all of my files and the others users on that folder... i tried to ls /etc/mtab, but the response is ls: mtab input/output error i tried to ls -l /etc and the response for mtab is : ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? mtab Please help me how to solve my problem.... So i can get all of our files on /home folder..</div> </blockquote></div>