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This is really one of the most maddening things that OS X does:
The disk "Foo" is in use and could not be ejected.
Try quitting applications and try again.
Hey, you're the damn computer -- try telling me what those applications are! Try telling me what files are in use! Try letting me override!
Good call Quentin, man lsof reveals lsof +D [path] . Worked great for me.
I know I'm two years late, but I had the same problem today, and found this page on google.
I found that you can force an eject in the terminal: cd /Volumes and then type
hdiutil eject -force drive-name/
and it's gone! No idea really how safe this is. I quit everything first, but didn't want to reboot.
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Agreed - this has always bugged me, and Windows does just the same.
Linux has an 'fuser' command which allows you to find out which processes are using a disk - you can do something like `fuser -vm /home`. I haven't found an equivalent in OS X, though there may be some combination of options to `lsof` which would give you something similar.
Either way, it should really be a button in the dialog box that would give you the info.