Thanks, Bob Kewei
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Bob Proulx wrote: > 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
