Given the variety of responses, there seems to be quite a bit of confusion on this. Solaris versions prior to 8 supposedly lack the -f option to force umount, though Tim Yocum's Solaris 7 machine claims to have the option. Found out that some relevant tools that may sometimes help you out of a stuck filesystem scenario are: fuser, which lets you find out (and optionally kills processes for) who's using a filesystem lockfs, which locks a filesystem. when it's locked, you're able to unmount it (so the manpage claims). unfortunately when i tried it on my nfs filesystem, it said inappropriate ioctl for device, so perhaps this is for local filesystems only. So if you're a Solaris 7 or lower user, you apparently really do have to reboot, which kind of blows my mind. My pdp11 knew how to force an umount for crying out loud. Thank heavens for Solaris 8. Thanks to all who responded, though I at first though the advice to reboot was a joke. I ended up having to reboot and was accused by my peers of being a Gates shill. --jake On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Jacob Ritorto wrote: > Hi, > > *real* quick.. > > what's the trick to forcibly umount an nfs filesystem in Solaris7? > > tia > > _______________________________________________ > sunmanagers mailing list > sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org > http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers >Received on Wed Nov 14 20:57:07 2001
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