Ernesto Quiroz wrote:
> Hello
> 
>  
> 
> I am unable to kill a hanging df process by using kill -9 <PID>.
> 
> Situation: We have an NFS mount on one of our servers. The network link
> went down before the NFS mount was properly unmounted.

df state is just being held by the kernel, and it's not
allowing you to kill it for consistency reasons.
Have you tried umount -f ?

cheers,
Pádraig.


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