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31.Dd May 31, 2011
32.Dt UMOUNT 8
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm umount
36.Nd unmount file systems
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.Nm
39.Op Fl fv
40.Ar special ... | node ... | fsid ...
41.Nm
42.Fl a | A
43.Op Fl F Ar fstab
44.Op Fl fv
45.Op Fl h Ar host
46.Op Fl t Ar type
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Nm
50utility calls the
51.Xr unmount 2
52system call to remove a file system from the file system tree.
53The file system can be specified by its
54.Ar special
55device or remote node (rhost:path), the path to the mount point
56.Ar node
57or by the file system ID
58.Ar fsid
59as reported by
60.Dq mount -v
61when run by root.
62.Pp
63The options are as follows:
64.Bl -tag -width indent
65.It Fl a
66All the file systems described in
67.Xr fstab 5
68are unmounted.
69.It Fl A
70All the currently mounted file systems except
71the root are unmounted.
72.It Fl F Ar fstab
73Specify the
74.Pa fstab
75file to use.
76.It Fl f
77The file system is forcibly unmounted.
78Active special devices continue to work,
79but all other files return errors if further accesses are attempted.
80The root file system cannot be forcibly unmounted.
81For NFS, a forced dismount can take up to 1 minute or more to
82complete against an unresponsive server and may throw away
83data not yet written to the server for this case.
84.It Fl h Ar host
85Only file systems mounted from the specified host will be
86unmounted.
87This option implies the
88.Fl A
89option and, unless otherwise specified with the
90.Fl t
91option, will only unmount
92.Tn NFS
93file systems.
94.It Fl t Ar type
95Is used to indicate the actions should only be taken on
96file systems of the specified type.
97More than one type may be specified in a comma separated list.
98The list of file system types can be prefixed with
99.Dq no
100to specify the file system types for which action should
101.Em not
102be taken.
103For example, the
104.Nm
105command:
106.Bd -literal -offset indent
107umount -a -t nfs,nullfs
108.Ed
109.Pp
110unmounts all file systems of the type
111.Tn NFS
112and
113.Tn NULLFS
114that are listed in the
115.Xr fstab 5
116file.
117.It Fl v
118Verbose, additional information is printed out as each file system
119is unmounted.
120.El
121.Sh ENVIRONMENT
122.Bl -tag -width ".Ev PATH_FSTAB"
123.It Ev PATH_FSTAB
124If the environment variable
125.Ev PATH_FSTAB
126is set, all operations are performed against the specified file.
127.Ev PATH_FSTAB
128will not be honored if the process environment or memory address space is
129considered
130.Dq tainted .
131(See
132.Xr issetugid 2
133for more information.)
134.El
135.Sh FILES
136.Bl -tag -width /etc/fstab -compact
137.It Pa /etc/fstab
138file system table
139.El
140.Sh SEE ALSO
141.Xr unmount 2 ,
142.Xr fstab 5 ,
143.Xr mount 8
144.Sh HISTORY
145A
146.Nm
147utility appeared in
148.At v6 .
149