[Gllug] Unmounting an in-use file system

[John Hearns]

On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 14:02, John Hearns wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 13:26, tet at accucard.com wrote:

> 
> > >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.

Yup, I'm babbling. Swsusp for suspending machines, not processes.
RTFWP, John.



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