When I try to simply drag the drive to 'eject' to essentially unmount it and then safely unplug it from my USB it asks if I want to 'eject all' (meaning the 2 partitioned drives) I click yes and it comes up saying one is still in use. Instead I turn off my computer and unplug it after the computer is off.
I bought an external hard drive to use with TM. It is 160 GB Western Digital Travel one.
When I initially plugged it in, before I even messed with TM, I partitioned it into 2 drives about 70 GB each, one for TM and one to take stuff off my laptop to create space and store it else where. All was fine and dandy until I turned off my computer and unplugged my external hard drive because I had to take my lap top and didn't want to lug the drive with me. When I plugged it back in and just clicked on TM to see what was available, nothing was there. With it being 2am and me being frustrated I turned it off and am trying to fix it now, except this morning when I plugged in my external hard drive, it can only find my 'Extra Stuff' partitioned drive and not my designated 'Time Machine Drive' (it doesn't show up on the desktop). I have gone into the disk utility to see if I could repair it, or just erase the TM partition and start over. It currently is trying to 'repair' the volume and it says that it is ok, but I didn't know if there were any other suggestions to fix this.
It still is not showing up in my desktop. So far I'm not too impressed with TM. I'm unsure of the best way to disconnect my external hard drive and prevent this from happening again. When I try to simply drag the drive to 'eject' to essentially unmount it and then safely unplug it from my USB it asks if I want to 'eject all' (meaning the 2 partitioned drives) I click yes and it comes up saying one is still in use.
Instead I turn off my computer and unplug it after the computer is off. This is probably a bad idea, but I don't know what else to do. Any suggestions? Do I have to go into the disk utility each time I want to take off my external hard drive and click 'unmount'? Sorry for such a lengthy explanation. Usually programs like this on macs are so simple.
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TM seems to be less user friendly than their other programs and it has thrown me for a loop. Message was edited by: larrygal316. I'm having the same issue.
Time machine isn't actively running, though just to be sure I turned the service off through the TM utility: no go. Still can't eject.
Getting 'resource busy' from umount (sudo umount /dev/disk1s1, that's my external drive name). Umount on the volume says not mounted.
Checked activity monitor and couldn't see any time machine processes running, only fsevents, which has to stay running. I threw the following: sudo umount -vf /dev/disk1s1 and the drive umounted.v is verbose, just in case there were any errors thrown I wanted to know, and -f is force umount, which forces the drive to unmount. Check 'man umount' from terminal to see more info on these.
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After doing this a couple times (I was doing some testing with some other things to find a faster solution than having to open terminal and umount) it just started umounting correctly. I have no idea why, but it did. So just keep that command in mind, just in case.
Gryyphyn, out. Ooo you said you dont have any info showing up right, it might not have backed up the first time or it might be trying to back up all your info now since it does not see any info there and maybe hanging up. That might be why you get the message saying the disk is active. The partition may also be messing it up, in theory it shouldnt but it could be why did you want to partition such a small drive, i assume you have less than 70 gb of info on your machine if you partitioned the drive down to that so why not just put all that other info that you put on the storage partition on your machine and not deal with the partition.
I'm having the same issue. Time machine isn't actively running, though just to be sure I turned the service off through the TM utility: no go. Still can't eject. Getting 'resource busy' from umount (sudo umount /dev/disk1s1, that's my external drive name). Umount on the volume says not mounted.
Checked activity monitor and couldn't see any time machine processes running, only fsevents, which has to stay running. I threw the following: sudo umount -vf /dev/disk1s1 and the drive umounted.v is verbose, just in case there were any errors thrown I wanted to know, and -f is force umount, which forces the drive to unmount. Check 'man umount' from terminal to see more info on these.
After doing this a couple times (I was doing some testing with some other things to find a faster solution than having to open terminal and umount) it just started umounting correctly. I have no idea why, but it did. So just keep that command in mind, just in case. Gryyphyn, out. Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Apple can therefore provide no guarantee as to the efficacy of any proposed solutions on the community forums.
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