how to: automatically umount cifs partitions

[sander marechal]

why can't they just put this script in is beyond me.

Apathy, probably. Ubuntu is waiting for Debian to fix it. Over at Debian, the init guys and cifs guys are blaming eachother, so nothing gets fixed. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=431966

[jcottier]

The following two commands should take care of unmounting Samba shares and other virtual filesystems before a shutdown or reboot. They must be run as root; prefix them with "sudo" if you haven't set up your root account:

ln -s /etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh /etc/rc0.d/K15umountnfs.sh
ln -s /etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh /etc/rc6.d/K15umountnfs.sh

More explanation can be found here:

Unmount Samba filesystems before shutdown or reboot.

Hopefully, this will avoid the need to download and install a separate script, as some other people have suggested. All the tools you need are already built into the Debian/Ubuntu init system.

This worked for me in Gutsy, but after an update to Hardy 8.4.1 it broken again. The links are still there in rc0.d and rc6.d. Any ideas?

[niall.ingram]

Script worked first time. No more hang ups or delays on shuting down. Thanks

[Axel B]

The script worked perfectly the first time.

Thank you very much !

[mk1_yea]

it sucks to register.. took me >5 minutes to complete everything.. hope it works.

[ounas]

Thanks

[ad_267]

since I did a clean 8.10 installation, I no longer suffer from this issue

I'm still having this problem with 8.10 (clean install).

[Loki3000]

My laptop connected to the router by WI-FI. I was trying fix from this thread, but error stil there.
I change priority to

K01umountnfs
K02kdm

but it's not working too. Think that KNetworkManager was closed before shutdown scripts runs.
Any solutions are welcome

my version: kubuntu 8.10

[michaelzap]

I'm still having this problem with 8.10 (clean install).

+1

I had fixed this with a script in Hardy, but I'd rather do it the "right" way now.

[dtcostelloe]

The script worked great for me as well. Thanks! (Great instructions too.)