dd: Resource busy on mac

If you want to create a 1 on 1 copy of some disk you might get this error:

dd: /dev/disk1s1: Resource busy

Solution is to unmount any partitions of that disk without unmounting the complete disk. For unmounting you can us the mount command or the DiskUtility.

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