Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 21:15:08 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Chip <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS mount won't unmount Message-ID: <20011104031507.GA45145@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <0111031907522Z.96094@chip.wiegand.org> References: <0111022206152Y.96094@chip.wiegand.org> <20011104021157.GB92910@dan.emsphone.com> <0111031907522Z.96094@chip.wiegand.org>
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In the last episode (Nov 03), Chip said: > 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. > > > > 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. Hm. umount -f should definitely work. I know I've dismounted no-longer-valid mounts with it. Try specifying the NFS name of the mount (i.e. "umount -f server:/path" ). -f is not supposed to ever return an error. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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