On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 04:52:48PM -0800, richard childers / kg6hac wrote:
I seem to recall a 'nomount' option in fstab(5), the manual page that
describes the contents of the /etc/fstab ('filesystem table') file.
That plus amd(8) should, in theory, get you a relatively stateless NFS
Make sure no one (including you) is using (including your shell's current working
directory) the directory which is acting as a mount point, when you umount(8).
Otherwise, you'll get a message about the filesystem being in use ... (-:
-- richard
lewiz wrote:
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at
On 1/4/2003 4:52 PM, richard childers / kg6hac wrote:
Personally, I don't trust amd(8). It's not clear to me that it's any smarter
than I am regarding hung NFS file servers.
You're right, it's not
(http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=misc/24391); amd is easily
confused by changes in
Hi,
Anybody know about using NFS with laptops. I want to be able to pick
up and go with my laptop -- problem is I seem unable to umount any NFS
filesystems when the NFS server is unavailable.
The problem is -- I can't run many regular utilities like df without
it getting stuck when the NFS
I seem to recall a 'nomount' option in fstab(5), the manual page that
describes the contents of the /etc/fstab ('filesystem table') file.
That plus amd(8) should, in theory, get you a relatively stateless NFS
connection.
Personally, I don't trust amd(8). It's not clear to me that it's any
In the last episode (Jan 05), lewiz said:
Hi,
Anybody know about using NFS with laptops. I want to be able to pick
up and go with my laptop -- problem is I seem unable to umount any NFS
filesystems when the NFS server is unavailable.
umount -f it supposed to work, but I have seen it fail
lewiz said:
Hi,
Anybody know about using NFS with laptops. I want to be able to pick
up and go with my laptop -- problem is I seem unable to umount any NFS
filesystems when the NFS server is unavailable.
try mounting with the soft option. the system will give up rather quickly
if the NFS
