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"Hey Microsoft, i want to safely remove this hard drive so i don't corrupt my data"
"Nope, it's being used by another program"
"I shut down every program, nothing is open, please eject my Hard drive"
"Nope, It's being used by another program"
**Proceed to just yank the cord out of the computer and flick off the screen.
Mac does the same thing (as others have said) and you can at least sudo lsof and find it, but somehow filesystem access now is worse than Windows 95 era Excel spreadsheet file handles that never worked.
Here's what an operating system is peeps: Something that handles files and programs that live on top of it. That's it.
How is it none of them can't do their basic function anymore?
Files, hardware / peripherals and programs. The distinction can get a bit blurry what with drivers and the fact that Linux exposes most of the hardware via the filesystem.
Process explorer, threads and handles tool, search the file name.
Kill the process or at least you know who now.
On macos, that program is sometimes just Finder trying to calculate folder size
Same on Mac except itβs an external drive that some mystery program is using.
same with my kobo. It VERY rarely ejects it. It will just say "unable to eject. force eject?"
