On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Ralf Christian Strandell wrote about, Help: Cannot mount /
unmount:
> Dear Sir/Madam
>
> I cannot mount or unmount any filesystems.
>
> When I try to mount something, mount hangs.
> I cannot stop or kill the process, neither can root.
>
> But it is possible to kill the parent process (the shell)
> and thus get control of the virtual terminal again.
>
> mount can list all mounted filesystems; problems only occurr
> when mount tries to access any devices. Device files
> exist and the file systems are OK. (there are other
> operating systems on them: windows & linux and they boot )
You are not being very helpfull as you have not showed us the command used,
simply saying mount is locking up, is not enough, now as i see it mount cant
lockup, the only senario i can think of is that you are trying to mount a
NFS partition on another machine or something to that effect.
If its a large partition to mount and you have a slooooow link to the other
computer then its going to take a while before the prompt returns, i belive
in such a case ctrl-c should stop mount and return the prompt to you, but i
am not all to sure about that anymore.
I once tryed to mount a 100Meg partition via a 9k6 link, i can assure you
its impossable, the prompt will never return but there WAS a constant data
flow.
Maybe you can inlighten us as to just what you are doing and what is
defined in /etc/fstab.
I mean suplly the commands used not just say i type mount /dev/xxx xx xx xx
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> Yours faithfully,
> Ralf Christian Strandell
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