how to: automatically umount cifs partitions

[jpneron]

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.

Simple, elegant, and it works (Intrepid Ibex).

Thanks.

[antaresteleko]

Thanks Max,

I had the same problem, and your solution works perfectly for me. The shutdown process is now clean and fast.

antaresteleko.

[nicolasavru]

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.

Got rid of some of the errors, but not all. I changed it to K02umountnfs (from K15umountnfs) and not it works great.

Thank you very much.

[bpituley]

The solution works - thank you - but I'm going to echo other users who wonder why this kind of command line intervention is even required.

[sander marechal]

Because nobody is taking responsibility for the bug. The initscripts people blame smb and vice-versa. See the upstream bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=431966

[anibalojeda]

Because nobody is taking responsibility for the bug. The initscripts people blame smb and vice-versa. See the upstream bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=431966

I just took a look at the bug report, very annoying.. this problem does not exist in other distros (slackware, mandriva, centos) i tested their latest versions..
Is possible to package this solution in a dep file & submit this as a package for other to use ?
Would be accepted ?

this small things should be fixed.

thanks for the one that came with the soluton.

by the way im using mine at K03:
update-rc.d umountcifs.sh stop 03 0 6

works perfect

[tonynonumber]

Thanks one more time Max, this cured the problem for me (in U8.10).

[mvdv95]

Aslo thanks from me Max, I was mounting my networkdrives today and faced the same problem at shutdown. It's fixed perfectly with your script.

[gersoid]

Worked fine on 8.10 (earlier solutions not so successful) - thanks

What has to happen so that this is automatically part of 9.04 ?

[sander marechal]

What has to happen so that this is automatically part of 9.04 ?

This bug needs to be solved: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=431966