umount
Name
umount -- unmount file systems
Synopsis
umount [-hV]
umount -a [-nrv] [-t vfstype]
umount [-nrv] device | dir... Description
umount detaches the file system(s) mentioned from the file
hierarchy. A file system is specified by giving the directory where
it has been mounted.
Standard Options
-v | | invokes verbose mode. |
-n | | unmounts without writing in /etc/mtab. |
-r | | tries to remount read-only if unmounting fails. |
-a | | unmounts all of the file systems described in /etc/mtab except
for the proc file system. |
-t vfstype | | indicates that 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 on which no action should be taken. |
-f | | forces unmount (in case of an unreachable NFS system). |
LSB Deprecated Options
The behaviors specified in this section are expected to
disappear from a future version of the LSB; applications should only
use the non-LSB-deprecated behaviors.
-V | | print version and exits. |