XPost: alt.os.linux, alt.os.linux.mageia   
   From: unruh@invalid.ca   
      
   I am unable to force umount   
   umount -f /mangeia   
   from a dead server that serves that directory. Furthermore, the dead nfs   
   mount means that ls / and find / -maxdepth 1 refuse to complete and just   
   hang (although echo /* does print out all the names of the   
   files/directories in /)   
   I thought umount -f was supposed to force an umount from a dead server   
   but it seems that only way to get rid of them is to reboot. That is a   
   pretty non-unix thing to have to do.   
      
   I first noticed this when   
   ls /   
   refused to list anything ( although strace ls / did show the files)   
   I had to reinstall that computer since the disk holding / seems to have   
   been corrupted. and when I rebooted all I got was a string of numbers   
   (01, 99, 08, ... on different tries to reboot).   
   Anyway, since it was still running Mandriva 2010.2 it was time to   
   reinstall. But it cost me a day. But it was impossible to get those dead   
   nfs mounts to unmount on other machines. Is there some secret way to   
   force and umount even if the remote server is dead or is misbehaving?   
      
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