[Gllug] SMB causing hanging processes

[Doug Winter]

On Mon 24 Mar Simon Wilcox wrote:
> I can't umount it (device is busy) and root can't kill -9 the processes.
> 
> Does anyone know how to unblock this without rebooting the server (which I 
> really don't want to do, except as a last resort) ?

Try this switch to umount:

       -f     Force unmount (in case of an unreachable NFS system).
              (Requires kernel 2.1.116 or later.)

doug.

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