[Gllug] Unmounting an in-use file system

[John Hearns]

On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 13:26, tet at accucard.com wrote:
> 
I was going to say that the only sure-fire unmount
command is the big one on the front marked ON/OFF :-)


> >fuser -m /dev/filesys -k; sleep 10, umount filesys
> >
> >and see what happens
> 
> Yes, but the particular situation I want to do this for is when there's
> a process in an unkillable state (i.e., in an uniterruptable sleep).
> 
Aha!

Then maybe a combination of fuser and swsusp
http://falcon.sch.bme.hu/~seasons/linux/swsusp.html


Use fuser to see what processes are accessing the partition,
and save 'em off to (another!) partition.
Or maybe I'm babbling as usual.



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