darrell@midgard.ucsc.edu (Darrell Long) (02/02/90)
A word of warning: /bin/df is capable of crashing SunOS. Suppose /dev/sd0b is your swap partition. "df /dev/sd0b" will cause a crash. Interestingly some processes will continue to run, such a the clock or a perfmeter. I think that what is happening is that the swap area is getting corrupted and these processes are memory resident. Of course, df is kind enough to tell you that /dev/sd0b isn't a UNIX file system, but then it goes on to trash it anyway. Regards, DL