<quote who="Matt -">

> I am suprised that i am running such an obscure command to fix something
> that looks like a hd mount problem.

It sure as hell won't fix it. ;) strace displays the syscalls the process is
using, and signals its receiving, so it will let you know what's happening
when the mount fails.

> What exactly am I looking for in the resulting file ?

Anything that looks unhappy; error signals start with E, etc. Try running it
on some simple processes (cat blah) beforehand so you have a good idea of
what it's doing.

- Jeff

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