Re: umount question : can i force umount ???

sysadmin wrote:

root@mailserver# umount -f /mnt/forage
umount2: Device or resource busy
umount: /mnt/forage: device is busy


how can i umount such a filesystem . It is shared through nfs with a lot
of other directories, but i can't stop my nfs server .

fuser -m /mnt/forage

will tell you the PIDs of the processes which are using /mnt/forage.

--
Julian Hofmann
GSI Theorie
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