Re: [MLUG] NFS

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

With much effort you can usually force it to unmount. I haven't had to do
it in a while but i remember umount had some force options that would do
it if you kept at it and used them in the right order. I remember
originally figuring it out by reading the umount docs. it's a big stinky
pain though.

"Don't sweat it -- it's not real life.  It's only ones and zeroes."
               -- spaf (1988?)

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Michael McGlothlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
http://mlug.missouri.edu/~mogmios/projects/

On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Jason Youngquist wrote:

> I have an NFS share that is currently mounted and would like to unmount
> it.  The problem is that the computer which is exporting the NFS shares
> has been shutdown.  When we try to unmount the NFS shares it says "device
> busy".  I haven't been able to successfully force an unmount of the NFS
> shares.  We ran into this problem before and since we couldn't unmount the
> NFS shares we tried rebooting the computer.  The computer would't shutdown
> so we had to hit the power botton.  [We're running ext2 right now and
> hopefully soon move over to ext3 or xfs]  I'd really like to have a clean
> shutdown but I don't think that is possible with the NFS shares pointing
> to a server that is currently down.  I could try to bring the box that was
> exporting the NFS shares up, but I think its hard drives have been
> formatted.
> 
> Is there any way to do this gracefully, or just hit the power button and
> hope the box comes back up?
> 
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