Lawrence DčOliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> writes:
]In article <pan.2004.11.17.03.34.02.872997@yahoo.com>,
] Dave Uhring <daveuhring@yahoo.com> wrote:
]>On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:50:34 -0500, S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:
]>
]>> BTW, I found out that accidentally I got to two autofs running, and both
]>> mounted the same smb volume in a machine that was turned off. I turned
]>> that machine back on but it was not helping.
]>
]>It's called a stale mount and the only recourse is reboot.
]I'm surprised that's still true. I thought Linux was more robust than
]that, and that the mounts should timeout and eventually unmount
]themselves.
It would be nice. Also umount -f is supposed to free up such stale mounts,
but I have almost never had it work.
It is far too common to have a umount fail. umount -f should force an
unconditional unmount.