Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Feb 1998 11:40:19 -0500 | From | Bill Hawes <> | Subject | Re: Unkillable rm -rf on 2.1.86 |
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Chan Shih-Ping wrote:
> Sometimes running rm -rf on a directory causes an unkillable > rm process. It doesn't consume any CPU time but never returns. > The system cannot be shutdown cleanly after this. > > Anyway to debug what's going on?
Are you using disk quotas? Someone else has reported that removing large directories with quota enabled seems to cause hanging processes.
Regards, Bill
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