I would like to thank all who read and replied my posting. The best solution is to use
automounter. The NFS will be unmounted automatically after 5 minutes inactivity
on SGI and 10 minutes on SUN.
Best Regards,
Weixing Zhang, Ph.D.
Department of Structural Biology
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
332 North Lauderdale Street
Memphis, TN 38105
Voice: (901)495-3169
Fax: (901)495-3032
http://www.stjude.org/departments
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zhang, Weixing [SMTP:Weixing.Zhang_at_stjude.org]
> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 10:34 AM
> To: AMMRL (E-mail)
> Subject: How to umount NFS
>
> Hi all,
> I found that NFS is more convenient than rcp to copy files and
> directories between computers,
> but the NFS client keeps talking with the NFS server after such operation.
>
> For example:
> Computer_A (NFS server), Computer_B (NFS client)
> The file systems on computer_A will be mounted on computer_B after the
> user
> do 'cd /hosts/computer_A/user'
> at computer_B and 'df -k' on computer_B will display the file systems from
> computer_A.
> Is there any way to umount the NFS on computer_B as a normal user (other
> than root)?
> In other words, make it disappear in the 'df -k' list on computer_B. Your
> input is highly appreciated.
>
> Weixing Zhang, Ph.D.
> Department of Structural Biology
> St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
> 332 North Lauderdale Street
> Memphis, TN 38105
> Voice: (901)495-3169
> Fax: (901)495-3032
> http://www.stjude.org/departments
>
Received on Tue Dec 05 2000 - 11:35:52 MST