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From: gm@kontron.UUCP (Greg McGary)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Quelling Filesystem Activity
Message-ID: <134@kontron.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Apr-85 18:03:21 EDT
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Posted: Fri Apr 26 18:03:21 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 1-May-85 03:07:34 EDT
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Organization: Kontron Electronics, Irvine, CA
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Here's the problem:  I want to dump a filesystem while running
multi-user.  I specifically *do*not* want to dump an active filesystem,
so I must be able to unmount it while it is potentially active.

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.

Does anyone have such a utility that they are willing to post, or
another approach to taking clean dumps of a filesystem without having
to go down to single-user?  If no one has one, I'll write it myself and
post it to net.sources.

Thanx,

Greg McGary

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