I have an NFS-mounted directory on a Linux machine that has hung. I've tried to force an unmount, but it doesn't seem to work:
$ umount -f /mnt/data
$ umount2: Device or resource busy
$ umount: /mnt/data: device is busy
If I type " mount ", it appears that the directory is no longer mounted, but it hangs if I do " ls /mnt/data ", and if I try to remove the mountpoint, I get:
$ rmdir /mnt/data
rmdir: /mnt/data: Device or resource busy
Is there anything I can do other than reboot the machine?
Source: Tips4all
You might try a lazy unmount:
ReplyDeleteumount -l
If the NFS server disappeared and you can't get it back online, one trick that I use is to add an alias to the interface with the IP of the NFS server (in this example, 192.0.2.55). In Linux the command for that is something roughly like:
ReplyDeleteifconfig eth0:fakenfs 192.0.2.55 netmask 255.255.255.255
Where 192.0.2.55 is the IP of the NFS server that went away. You should then be able to ping the address, and you should also be able to unmount the filesystem (use unmount -f). You should then destroy the aliased interface so you no longer route traffic to the old NFS server to yourself.
On FreeBSD and similar operating systems, the command would be something like:
ifconfig em0 alias 192.0.2.55 netmask 255.255.255.255
And then to remove it:
ifconfig em0 delete 192.0.2.55
man ifconfig(8) for more!
Try running
ReplyDeletelsof | grep /mnt/data
That should list any process that is accessing /mnt/data that would prevent it from being unmounted.
@Ryan
ReplyDeleteI tried lsof, but it hung as well. I ran strace lsof, and it ended like this:
alarm(0) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {SIG_DFL}, {0x40f680, [ALRM], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x3bfa430f30}, 8) = 0
close(5) = 0
close(6) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {0x40f680, [ALRM], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x3bfa430f30}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
alarm(5) = 0
wait4(-1,
I even tried the following to identify what process was accessing the directory:
find /proc -wholename '*/fd/*' -exec file {} \; | grep "data"
Unfortunately, there were no symlinks to or inside the /mnt/data directory. tessein's solution did the trick, though.
Your NFS server disappeared.
ReplyDeleteIdeally your best bet is if the NFS server comes back.
If not, the "umount -f" should have done the trick.
It doesn't ALWAYS work, but it often will.
If you happen to know what processes are USING the NFS filesystem,
you could try killing those processes and then maybe an unmount would work.
Finally, I'd guess you need to reboot.
Also, DON'T soft-mount your NFS drives. You use hard-mounts to guarantee
that they worked. That's necessary if you're doing writes.
Our NFS server doesn't exist. ?etc/fstab is clear but there is an entry in /etc/mtab.
ReplyDeletedf command keeps hanging and the below trick (which was given by lorin above) worked for me.
Aliasing the nfs server's IP and umount -f worked for me but I needed to do "umount -f" multiple times.