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SubjectRe: Unkillable rm -rf on 2.1.86
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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