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# 1  
Old 04-05-2007
umount is failing
I am trying to umount a NFS share.

When I do the following:

[root@oebs05 oebs]# umount syrupg21
umount: /oebs/syrupg21: device is busy


device bussy so I like to check what is working on the system....

[root@oebs05 oebs]# fuser -muv /oebs/syrupg21/
[root@oebs05 oebs]#


So no locks should be there... any clue?

Regards,
Johan Louwers.
# 2  
Old 04-05-2007
I have been reading on the internet that in this case you could use a

umount -l /oebs/syruat01

however my version of umount is not supporting this.

[root@oebs05 oebs]# umount -V
umount: mount-2.11g
[root@oebs05 oebs]#
# 3  
Old 04-05-2007
Try to see the locks with:

fuser -c /mounteddir

Or if you have solaris 8 or later you can type:

umount -f /mounteddir

This will unmount the dir with force.

/Tony
# 4  
Old 04-06-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by suntac
[root@oebs05 oebs]# umount syrupg21
umount: /oebs/syrupg21: device is busy


device bussy so I like to check what is working on the system....

[root@oebs05 oebs]# fuser -muv /oebs/syrupg21/
it because you are still in the oebs directory -- so you cant unmount it.

leave it first -- cd ~

cheers.
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