NAS and managing electrical mains

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You can unmount the NAS with the the lazy option; -l
I use this when my NAS becomes unresponsive and locks up the KDE desktop.
"man umount" for more information.

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Alvin <info at alvin.be> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:51:43 +0100, Francesco Antonetti Lamorgese Passeri
> <antlampas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've Kubuntu 11.10 on my notebook and a Lacie NAS wired to my home LAN.
>> Usually i mount the shares on the NAS as local file systems (/mnt/NAS), to
>> make it usable for certain software not supporting network protocols. I
>> would solve this problem: sometimes happens the elctrical mains goes down
>> suddenly, so my notebook loses the connection to the NAS. In this case, if i
>> turn off the notebook, it takes several minutes to shutdown, beacuse, i
>> suppose, the system don't recognizes the connection loss. How can i instruct
>> the system to recognize the connection loss quickly and unmount the remote
>> partitions?
>
>
> You'd connect your UPS to the notebook and write a script that unmounts when
> the UPS reaches a certain battery level.
>
> Seriously, there's no other good solution. I suppose you could 'ping' the
> NAS and then force an unmount, but that's very ugly. Besides, you don't want
> the unmount, you'd want to stop the processes using the NAS. Otherwise data
> could end up where you don't want it.
>
>
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