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Re: remount root as readonly

From	Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject	Re: remount root as readonly
Date	2014-07-12 09:43 +0300
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<lpqles$b2d$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References	<lppvid$4n1$1@speranza.aioe.org>

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On 12.7.14 03:30, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>      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


How about switching to single-user mode?

It is there for this kind of situations.

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-Tauno

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