On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 01:53 +1000, Colin Charles wrote: > So, I tend to do: > > mount -t smbfs //myserver/share /mnt > > a lot. Problem is, I do this on my laptop, and I do tend to move it > around sometimes, to places that don't involve my network. Because ACPI > sleep doesn't work on my beautiful x86 laptop, I resort to just closing > the lid, putting it in my backpack, and moving it usually, a 5-minute > drive away from my home to where I usually spend the rest of my day > > Now, if I try to stat /mnt, I can an I/O error. This is mighty annoying, > so is there a timeout for "lost mounts"? > [...] If that's not an NT4 server you're accessing, you could try the newer CIFS filesystem (mount.cifs) and see if it behaves any better. > Note that in all these scenarious, unmounting /mnt _does not work_ When I have these problems with stale NFS mounts, I usually resort to lazy unmounting (umount -l). Hope that helps, -- Ziga