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Kill all processes accessing the a particular file/folder

 Advanced Linux, Commands  Add comments
Apr 242010
 

Kill all processes accessing the a particular file/folder

Answer:

To kill all processes accessing the a particular file/folder, you can use the follow command:

# /sbin/fuser -k /data/backup

It is very useful when you want to unmount a filesystem but Linux reported the device is busy.

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