Unable to unmount ext4 filesystem due to "device is busy" error.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • While shutting down the system, hitting the message:
umount: /common: device is busy.
        (In some cases useful info about processes that use
         the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1))

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • ext4
  • Third party 'dbcfs' filesystem

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