Re: None

[Kewei Chen, Ph.D]

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
>