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

[Rudi Ahlers]

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?



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