Dave, > There's a good chance your storage is in a bad state. Can you send the > output > of "echo w > /proc/sysrq-trigger" when the system is hung? I issued your command this after running 'mount /dev/sdd1 /data' dmesg outputs: XFS mounting filesystem sdd1 Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: sdd1 (logdev: internal) SysRq : HELP : loglevel0-8 reBoot Crashdump tErm Full kIll saK showMem Nice powerOff showPc unRaw Sync showTasks Unmount Not much... nothing on the command line appears. >From ps ax, here are my dead processes: 1909 ? S< 0:04 [xfslogd/0] 1910 ? S< 0:39 [xfsdatad/0] 10044 tty1 D+ 0:00 mount /dev/sdd1 /data/ 10045 ? S< 0:00 [xfsbufd] Thanks again so very much! -Cheers, Peter. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/XFS-Filesystem-not-mounting-tp29704010p29705181.html Sent from the Xfs - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs