sorry I cannot boot into that partition so I do not know how to run ls on it?? I can only boot into a diff partition on same drive, please tell me how hh On Thursday, December 27, 2012 08:08, "admin" <admin@xxxxxxxxx> said: What does "ls -l /home/herb" show? Sent from my Samsung Galaxy™ S II 4G hc@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: Well I yayed 2 soon. .. I cannot boot because it says it cannot find a /home/herb folder well running in the other pat I can see the sda8 part with /home & /herb there but when I attempt to open it with filemanager it says it is not a folder? I looked in property’s>permissions it says permissions cannot be determined but gives this as location .. /media/a724d786-cc12-4d7a-8c67-e75cadfbb9cc/home/herb I hope there is a way to fix this without losing all the files in there I am backed up except for maybe past week so won't kill me thanks hh