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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
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Subject: Re: Quelling Filesystem Activity
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Date: Tue, 30-Apr-85 07:39:18 EDT
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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.

Killing an innocent process that is doing possibly useful work
just so you can unmount the filesystem is NOT NICE.

How about:

	wall 'Please get away from filesystem X so I can back it up.'
	until umount X; do sleep 15; done
	echo 'Ok, back X up.'