"Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill@invisible.ca> wrote:

> The directories look identical to me.
>   sirius:/usr$ ls -ldo bin sbin
>   drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  - 6656 Dec 25 11:58 bin
>   drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  - 4096 Dec 25 11:58 sbin
> 
> What am I missing? Or is my filesystem just trashed?

What permissions do your mount points have, when they're unmounted? E.g.
if /usr has mode 700 before you mount something to it, anyone but the
owner or root won't be able to cd .. from /usr.

Christian