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df command no longer working

rdalek1967 at gmail

Feb 12, 2023, 12:37 PM

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Howdy,

As some may recall, I'm bad to fill up a hard drive. I regularly use df
-h to see where drives are as far as filling up and such. Usually, it
takes only a second or so to list them all. Speed is one reason I use
it. I did my regular updates last weekend and for the past few days, it
hasn't worked. I did a re-emerge of coreutils, then some of its
friends. It still doesn't work. When I run df -h, it just sits there.
It will sit there for hours, doing nothing it seems. Eventually, I hit
ctrl c to kill it.

Anyone else running into this? Any idea as to why it stopped working?
I can't find anything on BGO. Searching for only two characters is a
bit hard tho. o_O

Thoughts?

Dale

:-) :-)

Re: df command no longer working [ In reply to ]

markknecht at gmail

Feb 12, 2023, 12:41 PM

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On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 1:37 PM Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
<SNIP>
> I did a re-emerge of coreutils, then some of its
> friends. It still doesn't work.

I saw some clickbait news that coreutils is being rewritten in Rust
but I don't think it's been released to the general public. However
if you run non-stable packages then possibly you picked it up?

Possibly mask the version you are currently using and see if
an older version is working?

Re: df command no longer working [ In reply to ]

Warp_7 at gmx

Feb 12, 2023, 12:43 PM

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Am Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 02:37:22PM -0600 schrieb Dale:
> Howdy,
>
> As some may recall, I'm bad to fill up a hard drive. I regularly use df
> -h to see where drives are as far as filling up and such. Usually, it
> takes only a second or so to list them all. Speed is one reason I use
> it. I did my regular updates last weekend and for the past few days, it
> hasn't worked. I did a re-emerge of coreutils, then some of its
> friends. It still doesn't work. When I run df -h, it just sits there.
> It will sit there for hours, doing nothing it seems. Eventually, I hit
> ctrl c to kill it.
>
> Anyone else running into this? Any idea as to why it stopped working?
> I can't find anything on BGO. Searching for only two characters is a
> bit hard tho. o_O

Sounds a little bit like a hanging NFS share; df goes through all mounts and
tries to access them, but one isn’t responding.

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Re: df command no longer working [ In reply to ]

arsen at gentoo

Feb 12, 2023, 1:06 PM

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Hi,

Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> writes:

> Howdy,
>
> As some may recall, I'm bad to fill up a hard drive. I regularly use df
> -h to see where drives are as far as filling up and such. Usually, it
> takes only a second or so to list them all. Speed is one reason I use
> it. I did my regular updates last weekend and for the past few days, it
> hasn't worked. I did a re-emerge of coreutils, then some of its
> friends. It still doesn't work. When I run df -h, it just sits there.
> It will sit there for hours, doing nothing it seems. Eventually, I hit
> ctrl c to kill it.
>
> Anyone else running into this? Any idea as to why it stopped working?
> I can't find anything on BGO. Searching for only two characters is a
> bit hard tho. o_O
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Dale
>
> :-) :-)

Try applying df to a single filesystem, like: ``df -h /''. If that
works, get an strace of df and also post that.

Have a great night.
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Re: df command no longer working [ In reply to ]

rdalek1967 at gmail

Feb 12, 2023, 2:29 PM

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Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Am Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 02:37:22PM -0600 schrieb Dale:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> As some may recall, I'm bad to fill up a hard drive. I regularly use df
>> -h to see where drives are as far as filling up and such. Usually, it
>> takes only a second or so to list them all. Speed is one reason I use
>> it. I did my regular updates last weekend and for the past few days, it
>> hasn't worked. I did a re-emerge of coreutils, then some of its
>> friends. It still doesn't work. When I run df -h, it just sits there.
>> It will sit there for hours, doing nothing it seems. Eventually, I hit
>> ctrl c to kill it.
>>
>> Anyone else running into this? Any idea as to why it stopped working?
>> I can't find anything on BGO. Searching for only two characters is a
>> bit hard tho. o_O
> Sounds a little bit like a hanging NFS share; df goes through all mounts and
> tries to access them, but one isn’t responding.
>

This was the one. I guess I forgot to umount my backup NAS before
shutting it down. Obviously, since the machine is off right now, it
wasn't responding. I did a umount -f on it and now it works again.

I thought I used df since my last update but wasn't sure. I thought
maybe a update broke a symlink or something, which is why I re-emerged
several packages. Didn't occur to me to check the NAS mount point.

Thanks to all. It's working again. I need to buy more drives again
tho. Getting close to 90% on some and over 90% on backup NAS. :/

Dale

:-) :-)

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