by > >I am trying to move my NFS mounted home directories from one NFS server to
> >another. However when I go to unmount from the old server I keep getting
> >the message that the file system is busy, eventhough there is nobody logged
> >into the system except me. fuser -u /nfs/home show no one is using the file
> >system either. Is there a way to forcefully unmount the NFS mounted file
> >system, without bringing the system down to single user mode?
> First, you should be using "fuser -c /nfs/home" to tell you about all uses
> of the mounted filing system, rather than just those of the named directory.
> Also, there are "uses" that don't show up with "fuser" (e.g. nested mount
> points, exports, files open by the kernel). In Solaris 8, fuser has an
> unfortunate bug for NFS filing systems: a failed attempt to unmount causes
> some uses of the filing system not to show up with "fuser -c", for a while.
Quote:> But to answer your last question explicitly, yes there is. See the "-f"
> option in the umount(1m) man page. But don't use it until you have exhausted
> all other possibilities.
> Chris Thompson
> Email: cet1 [at] cam.ac.uk