[PLUG] Runaway process

[Jeme A Brelin]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Michael Montagne wrote:
> How do I kill a runaway command?  I started a "rm -rf" command on a huge
> directory and now it can't be killed.  I tried "kill -9" and "killall
> rm".

This has nothing to do with killing the process, but what filesystem was
it on?

rm -rf under reiserfs never takes any time at all.

J.
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