[X4U] Cannot Un-Mount Partition

Fabian Fang ftf at mac.com
Sat Dec 10 13:47:41 PST 2005


On Dec 10, 2005, at 1:08 PM, Alec McKenzie wrote:

> At 12:33 -0800 on 10/12/05, revDAVE wrote:
>
>> -  partition 1 = Panther 10.3.9
>> -  I used carbon copy cloner to duplicate this on partition number 2
>> -  then I upgraded to Tiger 10.4.3 on partition 1
>> - ( I did all necessary repair permissions - repair drives etc.  
>> before and
>> after -  on both systems)
>> -  basically everything is working fine on both systems - however  
>> - when I
>> am in Tiger - I am  unable to un-mount partition 2 ( older  
>> Panther) -  and
>> it says drive is in use...
>
> I would expect that to happen, because the drive *is* in use. As  
> far as I know you can only "eject" the whole drive. In my  
> experience if you have several partitions and eject one of them  
> they will all go, provided none is in use.

Individual partitions (volumes) can be unmounted and mounted easily  
through Disk Utilities.


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