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Date:      Sat, 3 Nov 2001 20:11:58 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Chip <chip@wiegand.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NFS mount won't unmount
Message-ID:  <20011104021157.GB92910@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <0111022206152Y.96094@chip.wiegand.org>
References:  <0111022206152Y.96094@chip.wiegand.org>

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In the last episode (Nov 02), Chip said:
> I removed a computer from my network, which had nfs shares, and now on 
> another machine I cannot umount that directory. I tried killall -HUP mountd 
> but that didn't work. I cannot remove the directory name or unmount it, I 
> just get device busy messages. Another sympton of this is when I am using 
> KWrite, GVim,  or any gui editor, and use file/open and navigate to the usr2 
> partition, it will hang and not show the two directories (the two differant 
> nfs mounts from two other machines. One directory is the unmountable and the 
> other is mounted and accessible from the term window, as regular user or 
> root).  I did search the archives which is where I found the killall -HUP 
> mountd command. 
> There must be a way to do this without a reboot?

umount -f /mountpoint

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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