clear_locks(8)

clear locks held on behalf of an NFS client

NAME

clear_locks – clear locks held on behalf of an NFS client

SYNOPSIS

clear_locks hostname

DESCRIPTION

The clear_locks command can be used to clear file locks held by an NFS client. This should only be used to handle problems caused by an NFS client crashing while holding locks and failing to clear them itself when it reboots.

HISTORY

A version of clear_locks appeared in SunOS 4.

History

FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27) to FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE: the text shown here
FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE to FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE
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