How to Stop All Processes for a File System

1. Become superuser.

2. List all the processes that are using the file system, so you know which processes you are going to stop.

   # fuser -c [ -u ] mount-point

   -c	Reports on files that are mount points for file systems and any files within those mounted file systems.
   -u	Displays the user login name for each process ID.
   mount-point	The name of the file system for which you want to stop processes.

3. Stop all processes for the file system.

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   Note -

   You should not stop a user's processes without warning.

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   # fuser -c -k mount-point

   A SIGKILL is sent to each process using the file system.

4. Verify that there are no processes using the file system.

   # fuser -c mount-point

Example--Stopping All Processes for a File System

The following example stops process 4006c that is using the /export/home file system.

# fuser -c /export/home
/export/home:     4006c
# fuser -c -k /export/home
/export/home:     4006c
# fuser -c /export/home
/export/home: