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faced same issue, so did a small research
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this is not the answer , i just need some info. I will delete this immediately

what is the size of "Something" that Before doing dd command you are tryingneed to copy ?. is thisdo /Volumes/Somethingunmount $device and /dev/disk2 is on the same 32 gb drive ?sub partitions(if any). To my understanding if this /dev/disk2 is

ie, in fat32 format and whatgeneral

sudo diskutil unmount $device

this case

sudo diskutil unmount /dev/disk2
sudo diskutil unmount /dev/disk2s1
sudo diskutil unmount /dev/disk2s2

then you are trying to copy is a single file more than 4GB of size try dd command, then its not going to get copied.hopes this helps

for reference https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/271471/running-dd-why-resource-is-busy

this is not the answer , i just need some info. I will delete this immediately

what is the size of "Something" that you are trying to copy ?. is this /Volumes/Something and /dev/disk2 is on the same 32 gb drive ?. To my understanding if this /dev/disk2 is in fat32 format and what you are trying to copy is a single file more than 4GB of size , then its not going to get copied.

Before doing dd command you need to do unmount $device and sub partitions(if any).

ie, in general

sudo diskutil unmount $device

this case

sudo diskutil unmount /dev/disk2
sudo diskutil unmount /dev/disk2s1
sudo diskutil unmount /dev/disk2s2

then you try dd command, hopes this helps

for reference https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/271471/running-dd-why-resource-is-busy

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this is not the answer , i just need some info. I will delete this immediately

what is the size of "Something" that you are trying to copy ?. is this /Volumes/Something and /dev/disk2 is on the same 32 gb drive ?. To my understanding if this /dev/disk2 is in fat32 format and what you are trying to copy is a single file more than 4GB of size , then its not going to get copied.

what is the size of "Something" that you are trying to copy ?. is this /Volumes/Something and /dev/disk2 is on the same 32 gb drive ?. To my understanding if this /dev/disk2 is in fat32 format and what you are trying to copy is a single file more than 4GB of size , then its not going to get copied.

this is not the answer , i just need some info. I will delete this immediately

what is the size of "Something" that you are trying to copy ?. is this /Volumes/Something and /dev/disk2 is on the same 32 gb drive ?. To my understanding if this /dev/disk2 is in fat32 format and what you are trying to copy is a single file more than 4GB of size , then its not going to get copied.

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Aadu Thoma
Aadu Thoma
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what is the size of "Something" that you are trying to copy ?. is this /Volumes/Something and /dev/disk2 is on the same 32 gb drive ?. To my understanding if this /dev/disk2 is in fat32 format and what you are trying to copy is a single file more than 4GB of size , then its not going to get copied.