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Re: remount root as readonly

From	Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject	Re: remount root as readonly
Date	2014-07-12 20:17 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Bill Cunningham <nospam@nspam.invalid> 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

Man fuser, specifically the -k option.

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