/usr has vanished completely!

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 07:33:34PM +0000, Paul wrote:
> My entire /usr directory is completely empty! It was working, I did a
> reset and on restart, I started to get all sorts of errors, the drives
> didn't mount and on checking, /usr is devoid of absolutely everything!

Is /usr empty because it didn't mount. Don't panic until you've checked
the partition tables and fsck