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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: hanging NFS mountpoints -- how to remove
Date: 5 Mar 1997 17:10:22 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable NotMyRealAddress
wrote on 04 Mar (in article <5fhvof$dbp$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>):
> >Ok. I mount a partition from another server (Irix). Then Irix
> >crashes (whatever the reson). Then I can not access the mount point
> >(of course), nor can I force it's unmount. The only way I know to
> >make the FreeBSD box forget this directory was a mount point is to
> >reboot it, which is a bloody shame. Do you know of a better way?
> >(FreeBSD-2.1.5, but I think this is a typical case). Thank you,
=Try typing the "umount" command (it should hang), then hitting
=Control-C. This recipe has worked for me in the past on some UNIX
=OS'es, but I don't recall ever using it on FreeBSD.
^C does not stop it... It still hangs...
-mi
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