I tried to copy some debs into my 30mb home dir which is on /dev/hda7, a vfat partition. There was no space so I went to make a new home directory of 100 mb on the same partition. Now all my directories are empty and the files come up blank, but the list of contents is still all there.

I had backed this up, but as usual that was some time ago. At least having the list is not the complete disaster of being unsure what you have lost.

I am thinking that everything is really still there, any suggestion as to how to rescue this situation?

Regards,

David.