Quelling Filesystem Activity

jim at ISM780B.UUCP jim at ISM780B.UUCP
Sat May 4 03:07:00 AEST 1985


>Here's what I need:  I want a utility that will aid me in quelling
>filesystem activity so that I can unmount it.  The approach is to
>examine /dev/kmem to identify pids of processes that have open files
>in that filesystem, kill them, and unmount the fs.

>From SysV FUSER(1M):

	Fuser lists the process IDs of the processes using the files
	specified as arguments. For block special devices, all processes
	using any file on that device are listed.  ...

-- Jim Balter, INTERACTIVE Systems (ima!jim)



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