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Umounting IPv6 NFS(v4) mounts

I had issues umounting my NFSv4 shares on an IPv6-only network. When trying to umount the share, it said that it couldn't find the mount in /proc/mounts:

~# umount /mnt/nfs/portage
/mnt/nfs/portage was not found in /proc/mounts

The solution: copy /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab, and …

A simple IPv6 setup

For internal communication between guests on my workstation, I use IPv6 which is set up using the Router Advertisement "feature" of IPv6. The tools I use are dnsmasq for DNS/DHCP and router advertisement support, and dhcpcd as client. It might be a total mess (grew almost organically until it …