[lug] Mount process in uninterruptible sleep

[John Karns]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Riggs, Rob said:

> Or you could kill the shell, leave the mount process in its current state
> and continue on as if life were normal. But by the time you do get around to
> rebooting your machine (months from now, no doubt), you will have forgotten
> about the stray mount process and have to hit the big red button with your
> disks mounted read/write. fsck, fsck, fsck.

I've found the Alt-SysReq S/U/B to be handy in a lot of these situations
to avoid the fsck upon reboot.  Doesn't always work, but a good deal of
the time it does.

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John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net