umount fails, fuser silent

From: Jean-Paul Le Fevre (lefevre_at_hep.saclay.cea.fr)
Date: 09/01/04 

Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:07:57 +0200

I'm unable to unmount an ext2 partition, umount pretending that
the device is busy. However fuser does not see anything accessing
the partition.
I can use the -l (lazy) option to force the unmount but at the
next (shutdown, reboot) the partition is once more in a bad state
and a long fsck is triggered.

Is there something to do ?

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