df hangs -- nfs related problem

[Aldo Foot]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley at att.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 17:45:25 -0800
> Aldo Foot wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to terminate the nfs mount on the client?
>> There are no messages in the log files pointing to this.
>
> The only reliable way I have found to get rid of annoying
> NFS mounts is with "umount -l", which won't "really" unmount
> it, but does make everyone think it isn't mounted (which
> works lots better than timing out forever :-).

I'll make sure to remember this one.

~af