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One-key eject all external storage devices from macOS (works with external hard drives and USB devices, not tested with disc drives)
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#!/usr/bin/python | |
import os,re, subprocess | |
diskUtilList = os.popen('diskutil list').read() | |
externalPhysicalRegEx = r".*\/dev\/(disk((?:\d+))) \(external\, physical\).*" | |
extDiskIntRegex = r".*\/dev\/disk(\d+) \(external\, physical\).*" | |
diskList = re.findall(extDiskIntRegex, diskUtilList) | |
for disk in diskList: | |
diskint = int(disk) | |
match = "disk"+str(disk) | |
print('Found '+ match) | |
#Check if there are any APFS Volumes | |
APFSVolCount = re.findall(r"Apple_APFS.*disk"+disk+r"s",diskUtilList) | |
#Do unmount APFS procedure if there are any APFS Containers | |
if len(APFSVolCount) == 0: | |
print('No APFS Containers on this drive, skipping ...') | |
else: | |
if len(APFSVolCount) == 1: | |
containerString = 'Container' | |
else: | |
containerString = 'Containers' | |
print('\nFound '+ str(len(APFSVolCount)) + ' APFS '+containerString) | |
#Unmount APFS volumes individually | |
for APFSVols in APFSVolCount: | |
diskassg = re.findall(r"Apple_APFS.*(disk\d+)(?!s)", APFSVols) | |
print('Processing '+ ', '.join(diskassg)) | |
for motherVolume in diskassg: | |
print('\nUnmounting APFS Volumes on ' + motherVolume) | |
APFSvolumesList = re.findall(r"APFS Volume.*("+motherVolume+r"s\d+).*", diskUtilList) | |
APFSvolumesListPrint = ', '.join(APFSvolumesList) | |
print('APFS Volumes found: ' + APFSvolumesListPrint) | |
for APFSVolume in APFSvolumesList: | |
print("Unmounting " + APFSVolume + " ...") | |
unmountProcess = subprocess.Popen('diskutil unmountDisk force '+APFSVolume, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE) | |
unmountProcess.wait() | |
if unmountProcess.returncode == 0: | |
print('Unmounted successfully') | |
else: | |
print('Unexpected error occured') | |
#To unmount other volumes | |
volumesList = re.findall(r".*(disk"+disk+r"s\d+).*", diskUtilList) | |
volumesList = list(dict.fromkeys(volumesList)) | |
for volume in volumesList: | |
print("\nUnmounting "+ volume + '...') | |
unmountProcess = subprocess.Popen('diskutil unmountDisk force '+volume, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE) | |
unmountProcess.wait() | |
if unmountProcess.returncode == 0: | |
print('Unmounted successfully') | |
else: | |
print('Unexpected error occured') | |
#Eject disk after unmounting, hard drives should shut itself down | |
print("\nEjecting " + match + " ...") | |
unmountDiskProcess = subprocess.Popen('diskutil unmountDisk force '+match, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE) | |
unmountDiskProcess.wait() | |
if unmountDiskProcess.returncode == 0: | |
print('Unmounted successfully') | |
else: | |
print('Unexpected error occured') | |
ejectDiskProcess = subprocess.Popen('diskutil eject '+match, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE) | |
ejectDiskProcess.wait() | |
if ejectDiskProcess.returncode == 0: | |
print('Ejected successfully') | |
else: | |
print('Unexpected error occured') |
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