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32.\"     @(#)umount.8	8.2 (Berkeley) 5/8/95
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35.Dd May 8, 1995
36.Dt UMOUNT 8
37.Os BSD 4
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm umount
40.Nd unmount filesystems
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.Nm
43.Op Fl fv
44.Ar special \&| node
45.Nm umount
46.Fl a | A
47.Op Fl fv
48.Op Fl h Ar host
49.Op Fl t Ar type
50.Sh DESCRIPTION
51The
52.Nm
53command
54calls the
55.Xr unmount 2
56system call to remove a
57.Ar "special device"
58or the remote node (rhost:path) from the filesystem tree at the point
59.Ar node .
60If either
61.Ar special
62or
63.Ar node
64are not provided, the appropriate information is taken from the
65.Xr fstab 5
66file.
67.Pp
68The options are as follows:
69.Bl -tag -width indent
70.It Fl a
71All the filesystems described in
72.Xr fstab 5
73are unmounted.
74.It Fl A
75All the currently mounted filesystems except
76the root are unmounted.
77.It Fl f
78The filesystem is forcibly unmounted.
79Active special devices continue to work,
80but all other files return errors if further accesses are attempted.
81The root filesystem cannot be forcibly unmounted.
82.It Fl h Ar host
83Only filesystems mounted from the specified host will be
84unmounted.
85This option implies the
86.Fl A
87option and, unless otherwise specified with the
88.Fl t
89option, will only unmount NFS filesystems.
90.It Fl t Ar type
91Is used to indicate the actions should only be taken on
92filesystems of the specified type.
93More than one type may be specified in a comma separated list.
94The list of filesystem types can be prefixed with
95.Dq no
96to specify the filesystem types for which action should
97.Em not
98be taken.
99For example, the
100.Nm
101command:
102.Bd -literal -offset indent
103umount -a -t nfs,mfs
104.Ed
105.Pp
106umounts all filesystems of the type
107.Tn NFS
108and
109.Tn MFS .
110.It Fl v
111Verbose, additional information is printed out as each filesystem
112is unmounted.
113.El
114.Sh FILES
115.Bl -tag -width /etc/fstab -compact
116.It Pa /etc/fstab
117filesystem table
118.El
119.Sh SEE ALSO
120.Xr unmount 2 ,
121.Xr fstab 5 ,
122.Xr mount 8
123.Sh BUGS
124When using union filesystems,
125.Xr umount 8
126cannot always determine the node which is the mountpoint.
127In this case,
128it is necessary to specify the relevant directory to be unmounted
129in the same form as that displayed by
130.Xr mount 8 .
131For example, given a mount entry like this:
132.Bd -literal -offset indent
133<above>/tmpdir on /cdrom (local, user mount)
134.Ed
135.Pp
136then the command:
137.Bd -literal -offset indent
138umount '<above>/tmpdir'
139.Ed
140.Pp
141would unmount
142.Ar /tmpdir
143from the mountpoint
144.Ar /cdrom .
145.Sh HISTORY
146A
147.Nm
148command appeared in
149.At v6 .
150