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Date:      Thu, 13 Jun 2002 11:13:27 +0200
From:      Sven Esbjerg <esbjerg@xbsd.net>
To:        Richard Grace <rgrace@aapt.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS
Message-ID:  <20020613111327.C3928@gosling.xbsd.net>
In-Reply-To: <sd08dfd6.084@aapt-gwia2.aapt.com.au>; from rgrace@aapt.com.au on Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 06:09:06PM %2B1000
References:  <sd08dfd6.084@aapt-gwia2.aapt.com.au>

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On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 06:09:06PM +1000, Richard Grace wrote:
> >>> Sven Esbjerg <esbjerg@xbsd.net> 13/06/2002 17:54:44 >>>
> 
> > Since I had experienced the same at my home machine and where I tried to
> > umount -f /nfshare which resulted in a kernel panic - I decided to try and
> > reboot the machine.
> 
> Perhaps another process had an open file on that mount?  Using
> ``lsof'' and then killing the process should enable a ``umount -f''
> without panic.  I'm sure I've done that before, and I can't recall
> the last time I had to reboot a machine for this kind of thing.

Yes. I tried lsof but it showed no processes...
 
> Using the automounter can reduce the risk of this sort of thing.

That's what I use for frequently mounted filesystems. This was a special
case. Anyhow it should be possible to use umount -f.

Sven
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