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From: Jacques Marneweck <jacques@capetown.za.org>
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Subject: Re: Problem unmounting a NFS fs
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Justin wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> Recently I had a 4.1 machine running an NFS server so that I could easily
> back up files on my web servers. However powers that be (aka the boss)
> didn't like the idea that much and pulled the plug. Literally, just pulled
> the plug. Now the problem that I am running into is the web servers won't
> unmount the file system that was previously my 4.1 machine. These machines
> are Cobalt Microservers, running mips Linux.
> 
> I have attempted the following.
> 
> umount -n /<dir>
> also removed the mount from mtab and attempted to delete the dir, device
> busy.
> 
> The man pages for the umount command on these boxes doesn't give many other
> options. I tried -f switch, but alas I get a return of  "forcable umount not
> yet supported".
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated.

Simple reboot the boxes... I did that for my one production webserver a
while back.  Only way it can be done that I know of.

Regards
Jacques
> 
> Justin
> Pennsylvania Online LTD
> 
> *The analogy of a fast, economical automobile with lots of gadgets,
>  and sporty appearance that frequently stalls in traffic despite repeated
>  visits to the authorized service center is actually quite representative
>  of Windows NT*
> 
> 
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