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									Disk being utilized by another program - Managing Disks - Certify, Verify, Initialize				            </title>
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                        <title>RE: Disk being utilized by another program</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/disk-being-utilized-by-another-program/#post-6539</link>
                        <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2021 05:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[You can use lsof piped to grep /Volumes/VOLUMENAME to see which processes are using the drive.

I had this difficulty a short time ago; it turned out that mds (spotlight) and notifyd were ...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[You can use lsof piped to grep /Volumes/VOLUMENAME to see which processes are using the drive.

I had this difficulty a short time ago; it turned out that mds (spotlight) and notifyd were using the drive. I was able to use

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist

to convince spotlight to give up on the disk (caution: effectively turns off spotlight indexing for all drives), but I did not figure out how to prod notifyd, so I ended up using the "force eject"]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/">Managing Disks - Certify, Verify, Initialize</category>                        <dc:creator>SLeM</dc:creator>
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                        <title>RE: Disk being utilized by another program</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/disk-being-utilized-by-another-program/#post-5263</link>
                        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2020 02:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Make sure all volumes on the disk are unmounted. Then try again. SoftRAID first must unmount the volume and if it won&#039;t unmount, you will get this message.]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Make sure all volumes on the disk are unmounted. Then try again. SoftRAID first must unmount the volume and if it won't unmount, you will get this message.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Disk being utilized by another program</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/disk-being-utilized-by-another-program/#post-5260</link>
                        <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2020 21:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I&#039;m trying to do a 4 bay drive into Raid 0 but when I initialize it states one of the drives, which is the older drive, is being used by another program and that I should shut down the progr...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I'm trying to do a 4 bay drive into Raid 0 but when I initialize it states one of the drives, which is the older drive, is being used by another program and that I should shut down the program but the drive is formatted to APFS.  Do I need to reformat this drive again?  It doesn't allow me to do "zero" since it's currently being used by another program.  </p>]]></content:encoded>
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