How to kill all processes accessing a filesystem on Ubuntu

Posted on January 21, 2019 by SoCRaT

This is not really safe, ok 😀 ? Do it at your own risk

lsof | grep /filesystem_name | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9

That’s it, Enjoy!

About SoCRaT

Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek
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