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10.5: Eject stubborn disk images via AppleScript
Authored by: auco on Wed, May 21 2008 at 1:26PM PDT

Unfortunately this script didn't work for me. It returned that the "resource is busy" ;-(

However, there's a simple command to force eject very stubborn disks (maybe a little bit more safely than simply unplugging)

in Terminal type:
hdiutil eject -force /Volume/volumeNameHere

10.5: Eject stubborn disk images via AppleScript
Authored by: ctierney on Wed, May 21 2008 at 2:00PM PDT

I was under the impression that eject (synonym for detach) requires a device name. Does it also work with a /Volumes path?