Workflow to Eject External Drive

[Prepare Batmobile Alfred]

Is there any way to create a workflow with hotkeys to eject external drives?

[AlfredFreak]

The way I do it with a hot key, create a workflow with your desired hot key and then this applescript:

 

do shell script "diskutil unmount /dev/YOUR-DISK'S-BSD-NAME"

 

To find the disk's BSD name, mount the disk, then: About This Mac-> More Info...-> System Report -> then look under Firewire or USB and you will find it.

 

There's probably another/better way, but this works for me.

[AlfredFreak]

If you need to eject multiple drives, then just repeat the line in the script (one for each volume):

 

do shell script "diskutil unmount /dev/YOUR-DISK'S-BSD-NAME1"

do shell script "diskutil unmount /dev/YOUR-DISK'S-BSD-NAME2"

do shell script "diskutil unmount /dev/YOUR-DISK'S-BSD-NAME3"