Just use sudo umount -f

On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Neil Laubenthal <[email protected]>wrote:

> There is a utility named What's Keeping Me that will tell you why you
> can't empty the trash and (I think)why a disk it won't eject.
>
> neil
>
> The three kinds of stress…nuclear, cooking and a&&hole. Jello is the key
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>
> On 2013-02-15, at 22:29, Ashley Aitken <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi Tim,
> >
> > Thanks for your post.
> >
> > On 16/02/2013, at 4:08 AM, Tim Roberts <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Use the following to disable mds aka Spotlight. 'off' for disable 'on'
> to enable.
> >>
> >> sudo mdutil -a -i off[on]
> >>
> >> If you still have problems ejecting then some other process is
> accessing that Volume.
> >
> > Thank you, good suggestion.  As I mentioned, I had put the volume(s) in
> the privacy panel of Spotlight, so I was hoping that would discourage
> mds/Spotlight but this will test for sure.
> >
> >> BTW, If you have a Terminal open and cd to that volume, it will block
> eject.
> >
> > Yes, I've fallen for that one in the past.  Interestingly I also don't
> have any Finder windows open there either but Finder still shows up as
> accessing the Volume.
> >
> > I've tried restarting Finder.  I also use Total Finder but I quit that
> for the tests too.
> >
> > Thanks again.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ashley.
> >
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