I have a remote share on another computer which is currently down.

The command I used to mount is:

sudo mount //10.10.100.100/files /home/user/remoteDir/ -o username=user,password=pass,dir_mode=777,file_mode=777

I cannot unmount through the gui as it says the device is busy, because it is down and I cannot find the correct syntax to unmount it from the terminal as I always get some error.

The reason I want to unmount is because the system is running really slow with the server being down and I am hoping mounting will fix it, and I cannot restart the system at the moment.

Thanks.

Updates:

I tried umount and smbmount for the share and keep getting command not found?

I tried umount again and this time the command work, but I got an error saying device is busy.

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sudo umount -l /home/user/remoteDir/

Seems to have worked.

I found the solution here:

Are there any issues or alternatives to using the -l switch?

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