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From: mds@sgi.com (Mark Stadler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Force dismount NFS partitions?
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Date: 19 Oct 90 18:01:25 GMT
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In article <72497@sgi.sgi.com> brendan@illyria.wpd.sgi.com (Brendan Eich) writes:
>In article <5415@fs2.cam.nist.gov>, sims@cam.nist.gov (Jim Sims) writes:
>> In article <870@ki.UUCP> dwatts@ki.UUCP (Dan Watts) writes:
>> >Does anyone know of a way to force dismount of an NFS mounted
>
>Too harsh.  Try umount -k, or fuser -k, or ps and kill/killall.  Provided
>the filesystem was mounted with the "intr" option (currently an SGI but not
>a Sun default), processes "hung" on it should be killable.
...
>/be

doesn't AT&T have a command called "fumount".  it does a forced unmount
of whatever you tell it, even if it has to kill off processes.  maybe
this is just an RFS feature, but i thought it worked regardless of file
system type.  anybody heard of it?

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