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Re: remount root as readonly

From	crankypuss <crankypuss@nomail.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject	Re: remount root as readonly
Date	2014-07-12 01:59 -0600
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 07/11/2014 06:30 PM, 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
>
>

It seems a bit dodgy to attempt running a filesystem check on a running 
system.  I'd suggest that you boot from some other device and check the 
filesystem in question while it is not the root of a running system.

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  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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