How to safely eject a volume when the icon has disappeared?
If a disk has been ejected via Finder and the icon has disappeared but you feel it hasn't yet, then here are some things you can try:
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Does it show up in Disk Utility? If it does, eject it from there and if not, then it's safe to unplug.
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In Terminal,
diskutil list
-- It the device is not listed then it's safe to unplug it. If it is listed use e.g.diskutil eject diskN
wherediskN
is e.g.disk3
, then follow it up withdiskutil unmountDisk diskN
. If it doesn't unmount you can use:diskutil unmountDisk force diskN