Ok, that's the process ID of what needs to be killed. Just make sure it's gone before doing anything with hdc.

I don't understand why the system is hanging though. Could it be only X? Have you tried doing all this from a text console?

Quote Originally Posted by markleong
ps ax | grep mount produced the following:-

3828 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/automount --pid-file=/var/run/autofs/_mnt_auto.pid --timeout=2 /mnt/auto program /etc/automount.sh