Why are you bind mounting /home under /and? You can just cd /home and extract there instead: Code: root cd /home/user/MyDocs bzip2 -d nameofpackage.tar.bz2 cd /home tar xvf /home/user/MyDocs/nameofpackage.tar
root cd /home/user/MyDocs bzip2 -d nameofpackage.tar.bz2 cd /home tar xvf /home/user/MyDocs/nameofpackage.tar