Steve Kemp writes: > No. The ideal solution is that you restore from your backups... Ironically, this all started from an upgrade to increase drive capacity in order to make daily backups of the entire system. Home is well backed up but the system backups are too old to use. I have two other Debian systems using the same version so I can do it the hard way and keep looking and comparing ownership against the good systems. Many thanks. Martin McCormick