[ubuntu-za] how to unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unavailable?

[Rudi Ahlers]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Jonathan Hitchcock
<jonathan.hitchcock at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:23, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at softdux.com> wrote:
>>
>> How do I unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unaivalable?
>
> Use "umount -l" - that's a "lazy" umount that doesn't bother to do any
> actual checks, it just makes the mount go away.
>

Thanx, that worked :)

How does one mount an NFS share, to avoid system timeouts when the
remove NFS server is offline?

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