[PLUG] How to umount NFS hung mouts

[Russ Johnson]

* Alex Daniloff <alex at daniloff.com> [2003-08-13 09:44]:
> Could somebody tell me please
> how to safely umount locally mounted NFS share
> when remote NFS server is down?
> Rebooting local machine is not an option in my case.

This is the reason that I've been shying away from Linux for file
serving. If an NFS server (linux) goes down, then you end up with stale
mounts. 

The only way to get rid of them is to make sure that nothing else is
accessing those mounted directories, and then you should be able to
umount them.

To find out if anything is open in those directories, use 'psof'.

If nothing is using them, and they still won't unmount, then rebooting
is the only option that I know of. 

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