A few questions

[Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,

root writes:
 > 1. How do I kill a process that has gone into an UNINTERRUPTABLE SLEEP
 > (without rebooting, of course).

	If Oommens suggestion doesnt work it is worth trying

#init $RUNLEVEL

where $RUNLEVEL is your normal run level (that is 2 on debian and 3 or 
5 on redhat).

 > 
 > 2. Local partitions are not mounting automatically on boot up. root gets
 > mounted - that's all. If I use fstool (from X), it reports the size
 > of all

1. Dont use fstool 
2. do man mount && man fstab
3. if u still have problems (and your mail is set up)
	mail ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx < /etc/fstab

prabhu

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