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From: bferguso@ics.uci.edu (B. Ferguson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Any way to force umounts on busy mount points?
Keywords: NFS, umount, fstab
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Date: 23 Oct 89 20:02:54 GMT
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Does anyone know how to force a unmount of a file system, from a busy
mount point?

We service a number of workstations from a central file server.

When we re-boot the server, we get flooded by Stale NFS file handles.
Is there any easy way to umount these file systems without having to
re-boot the workstations?

Help would be apprecited,

Bruce.