From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 18 00:47:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA04809 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 00:47:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beta.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (beta.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.6.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA04801 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 00:47:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by beta.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA17738; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 09:45:59 +0200 (MESZ) From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199708180745.JAA17738@beta.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: How to mount from a Linux box ? In-Reply-To: <19970817221014.50029@ct.picker.com> from Randall Hopper at "Aug 17, 97 10:10:14 pm" To: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 09:45:59 +0200 (MESZ) Cc: roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de, questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Robert Eckardt: > |The other problem, however, still remains: > |How to get rid of an NFS-mounted FS when the remote side goes down > |and/or the mounted directory is no longer available. > |Even `umount -f' does not work. > > Would a soft NFS mount be sufficient? At least it won't retry forever. > (Don't have your original msg so you might have mentioned something about > this.) No, sorry, I should have given an example: * <-- /cdrom on beta is mounted 9:36 pion: /root 0#% mount -t nfs -o soft beta:/cdrom /mnt * <-- /cdrom on beta gets umounted 9:36 pion: /root 0#% ll /mnt ls: mnt: Stale NFS file handle 9:36 pion: /root 0#% umount /mnt umount: beta:/cdrom: No such file or directory 9:36 pion: /root 1#% umount -f /mnt umount: beta:/cdrom: No such file or directory 9:36 pion: /root 1#% mount [..] beta:/cdrom on /mnt [ There was another question on this list, with a hanging umount. But I don't have the mail right here. ] Robert > > Randall -- Dr. Robert Eckardt ( Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Inst.f.Theor.Physik, NB6/169 ) Universitaetsstrasse 150, D-44780 Bochum, Germany ----X---8---- Telefon: +49 234 700-3709, Telefax: +49 234 7094-574 8 E-Mail: RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de --------8---- URL: http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte >>> A magician never reveals his secret: the unbelievable trick becomes <<< >>> simple and obvious once it is explained. <<<