NFS Filesystem Unmounting

[Clifton Smith]

Does anyone know of a way within UNIX 11.11 to force an unmount of a NFS filesystem that has gone stale?

[sekar parthasarathy]

hi,

Check with any one using the
file system, with fuser
command

fuser -cu (file system)


/sbin/init.d/nfs.client stop

/sbin/init.d/nfs.client start

you can try umount the now,
if does not works, then
reboot the system only is
only option.

[harry d brown jr]

Clifton,

Sekar gave resonable answers. Was there something that you think was missed?

live free or die
harry

[Ashwani Kashyap]

If its a hard mount ( by default its hard mount ) then you reexport the directory from the exporting server . YOur client serevr should be able to mount it again . If not then mount it and then unmount it . It should not show stale again .

If it soft mount , it will try to mount it for certain period then give up and should not show up as stale .

If none of this works , then rebot is the only option .