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Matt wrote: > On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 14:15 +0000, Simon Williams wrote: >> Hello everyone. >> >> Yesterday I mounted one of my server's samba shares on my laptop using >> smb4k. Both run Linux if that makes any difference. >> >> Later that evening I put my laptop to sleep (suspend-to-RAM). This >> morning the power went out, bringing my server down with it. When I >> later woke my laptop up, smb4k reported that the share had "gone >> offline", which was to be expected. However, it refused to unmount or >> remount the share. 'umount [share]' hangs, as does 'smbumount [share]'. >> smbumount does not appear to have a 'force' option, and complains if >> umount -f is used. lsof hangs for a while, before giving: >> >> lsof: WARNING: can't stat() smbfs file system >> /home/zaneta/smb4k/PROXIMA/family >> Output information may be incomplete. >> >> So how do I get rid of this stale mount? >> >> I had a similar problem with NFS a while back. >> >> This comes second on my list of major Linux usability problems- why oh >> why oh why can't I tell it to just disconnect a network filesystem >> without trying to contact the server about it? >> >> Thanks >> Simon >> > > I have had to resort to > umount -l /misbehaving/mountpoint > in the past when -f wouldn't do it. > man umount for details AHA! When looking at -l in the umount man page I noticed the -i option, which tells it not to call the umount.smbfs helper. The helper doesn't recognise -f or -l or anything. Interestingly I didn't even need to use -f or -l, -i by itself fixed it. Thanks a lot Simon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html