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Formatting USB drive with disk utility error 'One or more partitions are busy on /dev/sdc'

Asked by RayArdia on 2012-04-25

I get this error when trying to format USB drives using Disk Utility. What can I do so that drives are formatted?

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Language:: English Edit question

Status:: Solved

For:: Ubuntu gnome-disk-utility Edit question

Assignee:: No assignee Edit question

Solved by:: marcobra (Marco Braida)

Solved:: 2012-04-26

Last query:: 2012-04-26

Last reply:: 2012-04-25

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said on 2012-04-25:

#1

Be sure you are not using the usb device so please umount using nautilus left pane then retry...

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RayArdia (theallinsons) said on 2012-04-26:

#2

Thank you, the word 'unmount' was the critical one!

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