Showing posts with label fuser. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fuser. Show all posts

Saturday, 31 March 2012

Remove unused filesystem from linux

On one of the redhat server, found a non-standard filesystem was mounted under /migwork.
From the name, it looks like it was used for some migration work.

check whether the file system is still in use
$ fuser /migwork

No process is using /mitwork, so we can safely remove it.
$ umount /migwork

update /etc/fstab to prevent it from being mounted after reboot.
#/dev/md20        /migwork        ext3        defaults     1 2

check the information about md20
$ cat /proc/mdstat
$ mdadm --detail /dev/md20 | sed -n '/RaidDevice/,$p'

destroy md20
$ mdadm --stop /dev/md20
$ mdadm --remove /dev/md20

mdstat showed these sub disks are from SAN, inform storage engineer to take them back.