From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 3 18:12: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E8CB37B405 for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 18:12:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fA42BwC03547; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 20:11:58 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 20:11:58 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Chip Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS mount won't unmount Message-ID: <20011104021157.GB92910@dan.emsphone.com> References: <0111022206152Y.96094@chip.wiegand.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0111022206152Y.96094@chip.wiegand.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Nov 02), Chip said: > I removed a computer from my network, which had nfs shares, and now on > another machine I cannot umount that directory. I tried killall -HUP mountd > but that didn't work. I cannot remove the directory name or unmount it, I > just get device busy messages. Another sympton of this is when I am using > KWrite, GVim, or any gui editor, and use file/open and navigate to the usr2 > partition, it will hang and not show the two directories (the two differant > nfs mounts from two other machines. One directory is the unmountable and the > other is mounted and accessible from the term window, as regular user or > root). I did search the archives which is where I found the killall -HUP > mountd command. > There must be a way to do this without a reboot? umount -f /mountpoint -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message