On Monday, October 8, 2012 7:38:23 AM UTC-5, timo wrote:
>
> Is there any method of forcibly umounting an NFS mounted directory?
>
> We have a test environment managed under puppet that is also our DR 
> environment. In a DR scenario we'll be umounting all NFS shares from out 
> test array and remounting to our DR array. 
>
> However, as this is a test environment we have users logged on, so when 
> Puppet attempts to unmount the test directories, it fails with "umount: 
> /test/dir: device is busy" if I fuser against the /test/dir directory and 
> kill the PID all is OK. 
>
> I need a method of either forcibly umounting the array, or killing all 
> PID's using the mounted directores so Puppet can unmount them. I'd like all 
> this done from Puppet.
>
> Any ideas? 
>
>
Jo's is probably the best available approach.

The main alternative I see would be to write and use a custom provider for 
the Mount resource type, but I'm not at all convinced that the cost/benefit 
on that would even come close to justifying it.


John

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