clear_locks(8)

clear_locks8

Clear locks held on behalf of an nfs client

Usage

clear_locks hostname

Overview

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.

Releases

44 releases since FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE; the text changed 30 times.

  1. 6.4
  2. 7.1
  3. 7.2
  4. 7.3
  5. 7.4
  6. 8.0
  7. 8.1
  8. 8.2
  9. 8.3
  10. 8.4
  11. 9.0
  12. 9.1
  13. 9.2
  14. 9.3
  15. 10.0
  16. 10.1
  17. 10.2
  18. 10.3
  19. 10.4
  20. 11.0
  21. 11.1
  22. 11.2
  23. 11.3
  24. 11.4
  25. 12.0
  26. 12.1
  27. 12.2
  28. 12.3
  29. 12.4
  30. 13.0–13.2
  31. 13.3–16.0

History

A version of clear_locks appeared in SunOS 4.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.