10.5: Avoid 'resource busy' errors in Disk Utility

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10.5: Avoid 'resource busy' errors in Disk Utility
Authored by: lexicon5 on Wed, Jul 15 2009 at 6:35AM PDT

Works perfectly well...and this issue is still present in 10.5.7.
Unmounting the partition as opposed to ejecting the disk is what's required.
Scratching head. Can't figure out why Apple would redesign Disk Utility to not unmount first.