Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 10:27:36 +0200 (MESZ) From: Robert Eckardt <roberte@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de> To: sec@42.org (Stefan `Sec` Zehl) Cc: branson.matheson@ferginc.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS Stale File Handle. Message-ID: <199705180827.KAA20860@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> In-Reply-To: <19970517193708.32731@matrix.42.org> from Stefan `Sec` Zehl at "17. May. 97 19:36:36"
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It was Stefan `Sec` Zehl who wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 1997 at 10:53:40PM +0200, Branson Matheson wrote: > > > > I have an NFS stale file handle on a box that was placed there by amd > > I believe. I cannot seem to get rid of it... any ideas? I was told > > that there may be a process still trying to access that unmounted > > partition... but I cannot find it ... I seem to remember another way > > to do this .. but cannot remember .. can anyone point me in the right > > direction? > > Hmm, i'm not sure about the "process that accesses it", but if it is > indeed so, try "lsof" which will help you finding that process :) - > otherwise you could try an umount -f (for forcible umount) which might > help aswell This can easily happen e.g. when you mount via NFS on system B a CD, which is mounted on system A. When you umount the CD on A you'll see the above error message on B. The only 2 ways I found to resolve this situation (apart from rebooting :-) were to wait until amd releases all mounts that came after the mounted CD and then use `umount -f' or to mount the very same CD on A again. Robert -- Robert Eckardt \\ FreeBSD -- solutions for a large universe.(tm) RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de \\ What do you want to boot tomorrow ?(tm) http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte For PGP-key finger roberte@gluon.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de
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