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remount root as readonly

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From	"Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid>
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Subject	remount root as readonly
Date	Fri, 11 Jul 2014 20:30:06 -0400
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    I know as root user there are files open and all that is writeable needs 
to be closed. How do you use fuser or lsof to kill all the processes needed 
to unmount and remount a root system in read only mode to run e2fsck on an 
ext4 file system?

Bill

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remount root as readonly "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-07-11 20:30 -0400
  Re: remount root as readonly Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2014-07-12 09:43 +0300
  Re: remount root as readonly crankypuss <crankypuss@nomail.invalid> - 2014-07-12 01:59 -0600
  Re: remount root as readonly Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-07-12 20:17 +0000

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