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I am using Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS. I have a NAS using CIFS protocol. I have mounted a share. I am not using fstab at all. Running mount yields the following:

//10.0.1.38/FOO on /home/s3backup/S3Backup/mnt/FOO type cifs (ro,mand)

When I attempt to unmount it I get the following:

$ sudo umount mnt/FOO           
This utility only unmounts cifs filesystems.
This utility only unmounts cifs filesystems.

I also tried the -l option and it yielded the same results. Any thoughts?

Thanks.

engineerchuan
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    How about `sudo umount /home/s3backup/S3Backup/mnt/FOO`? – quanta Sep 10 '11 at 12:09
  • Huh, there's a bug report that sounds vaguely like that: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cifs-utils/+bug/648609 but the report seems to go nowhere. – cjc Sep 10 '11 at 14:24

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I had this same problem on CentOS 5.4 and found a workaround in a RedHat bug report, which recommended using -i which tells it to not use the umount.<filesystem> helper.

In your case, just run

umount -i /home/s3backup/S3Backup/mnt/FOO

This worked, although it will write the following to stderr:

umount: //10.0.1.38/FOO: not found
umount: /home/s3backup/S3Backup/mnt/FOO: not mounted
umount: //10.0.1.38/FOO: not found
umount: /home/s3backup/S3Backup/mnt/FOO: not mounted
Chris R. Donnelly
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