thanx for the reply's.

@mike fila: I assumed that I was indeed in Nokia-N900:~# when I do an ls there is nothing but when I do an ls -R as you suggest I get loads of screen output (I assume dirs).

@eight I still have stuff under the /home/user dir (including MyDocs). and also under /home/opt.

when I do a pwd when logged in as root I see /root and a ls gives me nothing.