Kewei Chen, Ph.D wrote: > When one mount point is in trouble, the df -k command > hangs there forever. Is there a way to stop/terminate > it? [...] > No, control-C does not help. > I am running rh7.3, but the mounted disk is from a very old SGI machine, > and from a rh6 box, both of them behaved the same. Will the way > of mounting make a difference? and how?
It sounds like you are mounting the disk by NFS? That would be a very important detail about this problem. df will try to report NFS mounts and if the kernel blocks then you will be stuck in the kernel. If so and the NFS server stops responding then that is just the way that it is. A long standing problem with NFS mounted filesystems. Depending upon many things it is possible that only a reboot will clean up from some NFS problems. Note that 'df -l' will lists local drives only and avoids hanging on the blocked NFS mount. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
