Re: ssd and persistant procs and app launch

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: ssd and persistant procs and app launch
Date	2016-10-19 17:58 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<e6pqhrF7dgaU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	<nu5lad$1hi$1@dont-email.me> <barmar-A8F171.11425419102016@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu>

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On 2016-10-19, Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> In article <nu5lad$1hi$1@dont-email.me>,
>  Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 10:11:10 -0700
>> Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>> > second
>> > 
>> > how to get rid of procs that prevent unmounting ext usb drives
>> > 
>> > this proc is part of steam client and when killed respawns
>> > 
>> > sometimes force unmount works but never like to force unmount
>> 
>> found one possible solution using launchctl but does not seem to be
>> permanent
>> 
>> macos should be able to kill a process and then flush and unmount
>> 
>> seems archaic that it is unable to assert control of the unmount
>
> Use the Terminal command "lsof" to find the processes that have the 
> drive open and kill them.
>
> lsof /Volumes/"Drive Name"
>
> Make sure you put the name in quotes if it contains any spaces or 
> punctuation. The COMMAND column shows the names of the programs that 
> have files on the disk open, and PID is their process IDs. You can use 
> "kill ###", where ### is the PID.
>
> If you don't see anything, it's possible that it's in use by some other 
> user, so you'll need to use "sudo" to list and kill them.

I have Steam and it doesn't leave any processes running after I quit it. 

I suspect PEBKAC.

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Re: ssd and persistant procs and app launch Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2016-10-18 10:11 -0700
  Re: ssd and persistant procs and app launch Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2016-10-19 11:42 -0400
    Re: ssd and persistant procs and app launch Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2016-10-19 09:18 -0700
      Re: ssd and persistant procs and app launch Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-10-20 04:49 +0000
    Re: ssd and persistant procs and app launch Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-19 17:58 +0000
      Re: ssd and persistant procs and app launch Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2016-10-19 11:52 -0700
        Re: ssd and persistant procs and app launch Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-19 19:02 +0000
          Re: ssd and persistant procs and app launch Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-10-20 04:47 +0000
            Re: ssd and persistant procs and app launch Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-20 14:26 +0000

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