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Re: remount root as readonly

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From	Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid>
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Subject	Re: remount root as readonly
Date	Sat, 12 Jul 2014 09:43:40 +0300
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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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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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