Re: mount stuck in kernel with 2.0.3

Dominic Mitchell (dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 15 Jul 1996 10:05:18 GMT


Charlie Brady (charlieb@budge.apana.org.au) wrote:

| I've just tried to mount a FreeBSD boot floppy router (search for
| freertr.tar.gz if having a copy will help).

| The kernel has ufs support. Trying just "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy"
| gives an error:

| ufs_super_read: fs_bsize 4096 != 8192

| Taking a wild guess I tried:

| mount -t ufs -o block=8192 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

| and now that VT is just sitting there and I am not able to kill mount.

I've just had a similiar thing with 2.0.5 (starting with 1.3.76),
whereby mounting my FreeBSD partition just hangs the process and
nothing, not even a kill -9 can shut it down. It's locked in the
kernel somewhere.

Anybody got any good ideas?

-Dom