Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 20:07:52 -0700 From: Chip <chip@wiegand.org> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS mount won't unmount Message-ID: <0111031907522Z.96094@chip.wiegand.org> In-Reply-To: <20011104021157.GB92910@dan.emsphone.com> References: <0111022206152Y.96094@chip.wiegand.org> <20011104021157.GB92910@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Saturday 03 November 2001 18:11, Dan Nelson wrote: > 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 That doesn't work. Just results in a failed: device busy message. That 'device' no longer exists, it was shutdown, removed from the network, it's gone, it's no-more. So it is not possible for it to be busy. I realize I made a mistake by not unmounting this mountpoint prior to taking it down, now I would like to resolve this without a reboot. -- Chip W. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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