Hi, On Jan 26, 2011, at 5:50 PM, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at SoftDux.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Edo <ml2edwin at gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 1/26/11 5:23 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> How do I unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unaivalable? >>> >>> I tried "umount /bck" but it "hangs" indefinitely >>> "umount -f /bck" tells me the mount if busy and I can't unmount it: >> >> Try: >> >> umount -f -l /bck >> >> HTH, >> >> -- >> > > Thanx, that worked :) > > How does one mount an NFS share, to avoid system timeouts when the > remove NFS server is offline? > Mount? Or unmount? If unmount, then, just create a simple script that will ping the server and then run the above command if it doesn’t respond. HTH, -- - Edwin - mailto:ml2edwin at gmail.com “The generous soul will itself be made fat, and the one freely watering [others] will himself also be freely watered.”―Proverbs 11:25