topic Re: df command hangs in Operating System - Linux

df command hangs

Jagadesh — Fri, 05 Sep 2003 13:48:41 GMT

Iam using RedHat advanced server 2.1. When i use df command it reports filesystem disk space usage and then it hangs. it is not comming again to the root prompt.

All my other command works fine..

Kindly help
Jagadesh

Re: df command hangs

Claudio Cilloni — Fri, 05 Sep 2003 13:56:06 GMT

verify your network connections. maybe you have a mounted remote filesystem and the remote machine couldn't be reached (network problem or remote machine down).

hth
Claudio

Re: df command hangs

Jagadesh — Fri, 05 Sep 2003 14:01:34 GMT

thx..
Just found that there is a remote mount and nfs service is stopped in the remote machine.
When i started the same it works fine.

Re: df command hangs

Alexander Chuzhoy — Fri, 05 Sep 2003 14:01:48 GMT

It could be because of the "bad" file system/hard drive
Try to fsck the partition that you've used the "df" command on.