Do I wait longer? (I don't think the command should take this long?) Or do I reboot and risk corrupting the filesystem? What is the OS doing spinning the fan at full speed all this while? I can't even run top, I hit the shortcut to open new console tab 10 minutes ago...
Switching away from windowing to system console took a while, and over a minute to switch back. Not trying that again.
Much Windows 98 nostalgia happening X-)