[PLUG] How to umount NFS hung mouts

[Fedor Pikus]

The best you can do is unmount with both -f and -l options. If that does
not unmount it, you're stuck.

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Alex Daniloff wrote:
> Hello Terry,
> Unfortunately it didn't work, mount command just hung.
> Oh, well I should wait till IT guy in CA reboots that damn server.
>
> Thank you anyway.
>
> Alex
>
>
>
> >
> > I just gave myself an idea. It's a long shot, but try re-mounting
> the
> > NFS file system using the "remount" option thusly:
> >
> >    mount -oremount,soft /mnt/nfs-share-in-ca
> >
> > The "remount" option doesn't to a full unmount and mount, so it just
> might
> > apply the "soft" option to the mount point without getting hung up
> trying
> > to communicate with the server. If it works, then you might be able
> to
> > unmount the share outright. Or even if not, it should cause less
> trouble
> > until the server comes back.
> >
> > Terry
>
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