<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div>Hi Linda,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422473892715_6413"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422473892715_6435" dir="ltr">First, you have to find your process. The "top" command can be used as well as the "ps -edf" or "ps -aux" commands..</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422473892715_6430" dir="ltr">Then, inside top, you should press the "k" key ("k" stands for kill). You type the process pid (you can find it in the first column of your process id line), press return and choose the kill signal to send : 3 says to the process "Excuse me, I'm sorry to ask you that, but can you stop, when you have finish what you're doing, but it's up to you", and 9 says "I'm your boss, I extermine you like a ***** now... you're a dead process !!! NOW !"...</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422473892715_6588" dir="ltr">you should use the 9th kill signal to kill your process.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422473892715_6589" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422473892715_6590" dir="ltr">May be it should work...</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422473892715_6594" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422473892715_6591" dir="ltr">Jean</div><br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> Le Mercredi 28 janvier 2015 17h04, Linda <haniganwork@earthlink.net> a écrit :<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">I had a usb drive that went bad so when I tried to do a cp <br>command it just hung doing nothing. I killed the command <br>with ctrl -c but it was still listed when I did ps -aux. I <br>tried to kill the process but it was stat D and I could not <br>kill it. I tried doing a forced umount of the usb drive. The <br>process was still there. Did a shutdown but it would not <br>finish shutting down and I had to turn off the power. Then <br>this week I tried to copy a file that was too large for the <br>usb drive this time using pcmanfm instead of the command <br>line. Although it told you out of space and had a stop <br>button it did not stop the process and again had to do a <br>hard reboot to clean up the filesystem.<br>Is there a better way to clean up a write process that has <br>gone bad<br> Linda<br><br>-- <br>Lubuntu-users mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" href="mailto:Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>