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Error unmounting disk

I have been unsuccessfully trying to erase the disk of my macair before giving it away. I got an error message, so I went through command line as instructed elsewhere on this forum. However, I get the following message:



MacBook-Air-6:~ alexandraverini$ diskutil unmountDisk force /dev/disk0


Forced unmount of disk0 failed: at least one volume could not be unmounted


Unmount was dissented by PID 0


MacBook-Air-6:~ alexandraverini$ 


What should I do now?

Posted on Aug 10, 2019 1:04 AM

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Posted on Aug 10, 2019 2:53 AM

What happens if you run disk utility in recovery mode? Because it appears to me you are trying to erase the system disk while MacOS is running. That's not going to work.


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