11 September 2012

Handling disconnected NFS mounts

If you use NFS, when the network/server hosting the NFS gets disconnected, it leaves the mount unresponsive and impossible to unmount. Some programs (including KDE/Gnome) sometimes freeze, trying to access the drive.

To fix it, mount the nfs with the "soft" option (as in -o soft parameter for mount or in fstab)

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