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35.Dd April 7, 2003
36.Dt UMOUNT 8
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm umount
40.Nd unmount file systems
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.Nm
43.Op Fl fv
44.Ar special \&| node
45.Nm
46.Fl a | A
47.Op Fl F Ar fstab
48.Op Fl fv
49.Op Fl h Ar host
50.Op Fl t Ar type
51.Sh DESCRIPTION
52The
53.Nm
54utility calls the
55.Xr unmount 2
56system call to remove a
57.Ar "special device"
58or the remote node (rhost:path) from the file system 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 file systems described in
72.Xr fstab 5
73are unmounted.
74.It Fl A
75All the currently mounted file systems except
76the root are unmounted.
77.It Fl F Ar fstab
78Specify the
79.Pa fstab
80file to use.
81.It Fl f
82The file system is forcibly unmounted.
83Active special devices continue to work,
84but all other files return errors if further accesses are attempted.
85The root file system cannot be forcibly unmounted.
86.It Fl h Ar host
87Only file systems mounted from the specified host will be
88unmounted.
89This option implies the
90.Fl A
91option and, unless otherwise specified with the
92.Fl t
93option, will only unmount
94.Tn NFS
95file systems.
96.It Fl t Ar type
97Is used to indicate the actions should only be taken on
98file systems of the specified type.
99More than one type may be specified in a comma separated list.
100The list of file system types can be prefixed with
101.Dq no
102to specify the file system types for which action should
103.Em not
104be taken.
105For example, the
106.Nm
107command:
108.Bd -literal -offset indent
109umount -a -t nfs,nullfs
110.Ed
111.Pp
112unmounts all file systems of the type
113.Tn NFS
114and
115.Tn NULLFS
116that are listed in the
117.Xr fstab 5
118file.
119.It Fl v
120Verbose, additional information is printed out as each file system
121is unmounted.
122.El
123.Sh ENVIRONMENT
124.Bl -tag -width PATH_FSTAB
125.It Pa PATH_FSTAB
126If the environment variable
127.Pa PATH_FSTAB
128is set all operations are performed against the specified file.
129.Pa PATH_FSTAB
130will not be honored if the process environment or memory address space is
131considred
132.Dq tainted .
133(See
134.Fn issetugid
135for more information.)
136.El
137.Sh FILES
138.Bl -tag -width /etc/fstab -compact
139.It Pa /etc/fstab
140file system table
141.El
142.Sh SEE ALSO
143.Xr unmount 2 ,
144.Xr fstab 5 ,
145.Xr mount 8
146.Sh HISTORY
147A
148.Nm
149utility appeared in
150.At v6 .
151