> On a similar light, when I start my box[1] on runlevel 1, and I try
> unmounting /usr, umount(8) complains that /usr is busy, even if there
> are no processes (other than the shell). My /etc/fstab has /usr
> partition mounted with defaults,ro,norecover; the partition is XFS.
>
> What can be the problem in this case? (I've had to resort to booting
> with 'init=/bin/sh' just so my /usr doesn't get mounted, and so I can
> do some maintenance work on /usr).

perhaps, some libraries residing in /usr/lib/ are still loaded somewhere.  

if you want to diagnose your filesystem, try livebooting (with
tomsrtbt or knoppix)... :D
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