HP-UX

Hello,
yeah... here my question :
Exist some way to force umount on HP other than reboot?

Thanks
gb

Are you thinking of mounted NFS?

yes, sorry
nfs mounted but with link removed. can I umount it without reboot?

Here I've two solution, but I'm not sure they don't produce problems :
1- nfs.client stop/start
2- mv mnttab mnttab.old ; mountall

The problems are :
all other nfs mounted will be re-mounted?
will I cut communication with well-mounted fs?

Well all depends on what issue you are to deal with...
Usually I expect from someone asking such a question is because he is stuck with a faulty NFS (NFS server down etc...) where its a nightmare whenever someone types bdf of ll etc... and yes since the NFS server isnt responding - ouy are quite in a mess...

What do you call nfs mounted but with link removed?

If is it mounted and the server is responding, then start by seing if you can free the "device" then umounting it:

Code:

fuser -cku <your mountpoint>
umount <your mountpoint>

... one more job en run that I could not kill :-/

server# ps -ef | grep fuser
root xxx xxx 0 xxx pts/xx 0:00 fuser -cku /mounting_point

you are in / arent you when you type fuser?
If it is trying (as it seems) I supect you have also an issue with the NFS server:
to make sure rpc.statd and rpc.lockd are available and responding to RPC requests:

Code:

/usr/bin/rpcinfo -u servername status
/usr/bin/rpcinfo -u servername llockmgr
/usr/bin/rpcinfo -u servername nlockmgr
/usr/bin/rpcinfo -u clientname status
/usr/bin/rpcinfo -u clientname llockmgr
/usr/bin/rpcinfo -u clientname nlockmgr

If any of these commands returns RPC_TIMED_OUT, the rpc.statd or rpc.lockd process may be
hung.