DESCRIPTION
The
umount utility calls the
unmount(2) system call to remove a file system from the file system tree. The file system can be specified by its
special device or remote node (rhost:path), the path to the mount point
node or by the file system ID
fsid as reported by “mount -v” when run by root.
The options are as follows:
-
-a
-
All the file systems described in
fstab(5) are unmounted.
-
-A
-
All the currently mounted file systems except the root are unmounted.
-
-F
fstab
-
Specify the
fstab file to use.
-
-f
-
The file system is forcibly unmounted. Active special devices continue to work, but all other files return errors if further accesses are attempted. The root file system cannot be forcibly unmounted. For NFS, a forced dismount can take up to 1 minute or more to complete against an unresponsive server and may throw away data not yet written to the server for this case.
-
-h
host
-
Only file systems mounted from the specified host will be unmounted. This option implies the
-A option and, unless otherwise specified with the
-t option, will only unmount NFS file systems.
-
-t
type
-
Is used to indicate the actions should only be taken on file systems of the specified type. More than one type may be specified in a comma separated list. The list of file system types can be prefixed with “no” to specify the file system types for which action should
not be taken. For example, the
umount command:
umount -a -t nfs,nullfs
unmounts all file systems of the type NFS and NULLFS that are listed in the fstab(5) file.
-
-v
-
Verbose, additional information is printed out as each file system is unmounted.