df command hangs

[Jagadesh]

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

[Claudio Cilloni · Accepted solution]

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

[Jagadesh]

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.

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

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