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From: Bo Arnklit <b.arnklit@mclink.it>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: unmounting NFS
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 14:28:32 +0200
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Could someone please give me a hand figuring out how to use the umount 
command to unmount a NFS-mounted filesystem.

I use mount_nfs remote:dir /mnt to mount the remote directory and it 
works just fine. When I try "umount /mnt" I get a message saying that 
/mnt is not currently mounted, yet "mount" (alone) reports it as 
regularly mounted.
The only way I've found to unmount the filesystem is to reboot, but this 
is rather unpractical :-)

Thanks in advance, Bo.