Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 21:10:19 +0200 (SAST) From: Jacques Marneweck <jacques@capetown.za.org> To: Justin <djinn@psycopath.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem unmounting a NFS fs Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10010122109190.57164-100000@aquarius.natey.za.net> In-Reply-To: <019001c0347e$e1cff5c0$0ea0dcd8@paonline.com>
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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* > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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