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Hi

I have Solaris 8 in several Ultras and they share some directories between each others using nfs.
(you know, one shares the other mounts the remote directory into a local...).
The problem is that one guy (me) deleted a shared directory and now the computer that was mounting it remotely is complaining about the missing remote directory.
I really dont need that dir but when I want to remove the mount point it says"Directory is a mount point or in use" and stuff like that.

My question: "is there a way to FORCE a dir delete without taking care if it was a mount point for a nfs shared directory?" if yes--- how?

Thanks in advance to all the unix community.

piltrafa

If the directory (let's call it /home/mountthis) on system A is mounted remotely to system B on /Amount, then you only need to do a umount /Amount on system B (and remove the /etc/vfstab entry which mounts it on boot).

If it's mounted by automountd, then look to /etc/auto_* files to find the mount.

Post back if you have problems.

RMT:
thanks for your reply. As you wrote that is the normal procedure to unmount a remote resource and, in fact, Im able to do that.
The problem is that, after unmounted, I cannot delete the mountpoint, it says "Unable to remove directory /example/: Device busy".

I look the mnttab file and the line is not there (cause I unmounted it!!), the dir is empty ... and so on..


Thanks

Piltrafa

Have you run fuser /example and found what process is still considered 'using' it? Normally it's your own process (Duh! I always do that!) that is cd'ed into the directory.

If fuser does show any processes using /example, then you would need to kill off those processes (users) - if it's a system process, you might try a kill -HUP to get it to reread configuration files (ie automountd)