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UMOUNT(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual UMOUNT(8)
NAME
umount - unmount file systems
SYNOPSIS
umount [-fNnv] special ... | node ... | fsid ...
umount -a | -A [-F fstab] [-fnv] [-h host] [-t type]
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 are unmounted, except
for those mounted at / or /dev.
-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. If a process, such as umount without the -f flag is hung
on an NFS mount point, use the -N flag instead. Also, doing a
forced dismount of an NFSv3 mount when rpc.lockd(8) is running
is unsafe and can result in a crash.
-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.
-N Do a forced dismount of an NFS mount point without checking the
mount path. This option can only be used with the path to the
mount point node and the path must be specified exactly as it
was at mount time. This option is useful when a process is
hung waiting for an unresponsive NFS server while holding a
vnode lock on the mounted-on vnode, such that umount with the
-f flag can't complete. Using this option can result in a loss
of file updates that have not been flushed to the NFS server.
-n Unless the -f is used, the umount will not unmount an active
file system. It will, however, perform a flush. This flag
disables this behaviour, preventing the flush if there are any
files open.
-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
-v Verbose, additional information is printed out as each file
system is unmounted.
ENVIRONMENT
PATH_FSTAB If the environment variable PATH_FSTAB is set, all operations
are performed against the specified file. PATH_FSTAB will
not be honored if the process environment or memory address
space is considered "tainted". (See issetugid(2) for more
information.)
FILES
/etc/fstab file system table
SEE ALSO
unmount(2), fstab(5), autounmountd(8), mount(8)
HISTORY
A umount utility appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX.
FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11 June 19, 2020 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11