On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 06:24:10PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 5/6/20 12:28 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
Was running du to examine the sizes of my backups and found du hung,
/mnt/backup is probably a network-mounted filesystem that is offline for one reason or another.
You could try "umount -f /mnt/backup" if you can't get the mount working by any other means. If that doesn't work, then "umount -l /mnt/backup" and reboot.
Sorry, I forgot to mention it's USB-3 and has been working for a coupla months.
A reboot solved it, powering the device off/on made no difference, as did replugging the cable.
Afterwards, I recalled that I had run a much belated yum update 2 or 3 days ago and had failed/forgotten to reboot. Probably some necessary item had gotten wedged somehow because of that. (seen it before, but not with a USB device.)
Thanks for the reply, though.
Fred