Linux Tips & Tricks

Today I had a situation in which I had to unmount var (mounted on /dev/sda7) partition on a remote server.
I used the following commands to make sure that no one is using the disk:

1. ps aux to check and stop most of the daemons like cron, mysql, syslog, klog (except ssh).
2. lsof | grep var
3. fuser -vvvm /dev/sda7

After these commands I could easily umount /var and was able to run

fsck.ext3 -ccDkvvv /dev/sda7

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