Thanks to all who replied. A umount -f will bring the file system down. Or to copy Dan Burton: You should be able to force the umount with -f. However you should be careful with this. It's very easy to snap legitimate filehandles this way and screw stuff up. First, try as best you can to nicely close down any processes that might be accessing that filesystem, then do sync; umount -f <your_filesystem_here> Putting the sync on the same line as the umount will make them as atomic as possible, to reduce the chance that some other process will open another file on that filesystem before it gets unmounted. -- Michael Kalus Unix SysAdmin Research In Motion Tel.: +1-519-888-7465 x3077 Fax : +1-519-888-7884 "... I've seen Sun monitors on fire off the side of the multimedia lab. I've seen NTU lights glitter in the dark near the Mail Gate. All these things will be lost in time, like the root partition last week. Time to die...". -- Peter Gutmann in asr _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Fri Oct 18 18:46:30 2002
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