[CentOS] how to unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unavailable?

Wed Jan 26 11:26:15 UTC 2011
Edo <ml2edwin at gmail.com>

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,

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