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31.Dd April 14, 2020
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 fNnv
40.Ar special ... | node ... | fsid ...
41.Nm
42.Fl a | A
43.Op Fl F Ar fstab
44.Op Fl fnv
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
56.Pq Ar rhost Ns Cm \& : Ns Ar path ,
57the path to the mount point
58.Ar node
59or by the file system ID
60.Ar fsid
61as reported by
62.Dq mount -v
63when run by root.
64.Pp
65The options are as follows:
66.Bl -tag -width "-F fstab"
67.It Fl a
68All the file systems described in
69.Xr fstab 5
70are unmounted.
71.It Fl A
72All the currently mounted file systems except
73the root are unmounted.
74.It Fl F Ar fstab
75Specify the
76.Pa fstab
77file to use.
78.It Fl f
79The file system is forcibly unmounted.
80Active special devices continue to work,
81but all other files return errors if further accesses are attempted.
82The root file system cannot be forcibly unmounted.
83For NFS, a forced dismount can take up to 1 minute or more to
84complete against an unresponsive server and may throw away
85data not yet written to the server for this case.
86If a process, such as
87.Nm
88without the
89.Fl f
90flag is hung on an
91.Tn NFS
92mount point, use the
93.Fl N
94flag instead.
95Also, doing a forced dismount of an NFSv3 mount when
96.Xr rpc.lockd 8
97is running is unsafe and can result in a crash.
98.It Fl h Ar host
99Only file systems mounted from the specified host will be
100unmounted.
101This option implies the
102.Fl A
103option and, unless otherwise specified with the
104.Fl t
105option, will only unmount
106.Tn NFS
107file systems.
108.It Fl N
109Do a forced dismount of an
110.Tn NFS
111mount point without checking the mount path.
112This option can only be used with the path to the mount point
113.Ar node
114and the path must be specified exactly as it was at mount time.
115This option is useful when a process is hung waiting for an unresponsive
116.Tn NFS
117server while holding a vnode lock on the mounted-on vnode, such that
118.Nm
119with the
120.Fl f
121flag can't complete.
122Using this option can result in a loss of file updates that have not been
123flushed to the
124.Tn NFS
125server.
126.It Fl n
127Unless the
128.Fl f
129is used, the
130.Nm
131will not unmount an active file system.
132It will, however, perform a flush.
133This flag disables this behaviour, preventing the flush
134if there are any files open.
135.It Fl t Ar type
136Is used to indicate the actions should only be taken on
137file systems of the specified type.
138More than one type may be specified in a comma separated list.
139The list of file system types can be prefixed with
140.Dq no
141to specify the file system types for which action should
142.Em not
143be taken.
144For example, the
145.Nm
146command:
147.Bd -literal -offset indent
148umount -a -t nfs,nullfs
149.Ed
150.Pp
151unmounts all file systems of the type
152.Tn NFS
153and
154.Tn NULLFS
155that are listed in the
156.Xr fstab 5
157file.
158.It Fl v
159Verbose, additional information is printed out as each file system
160is unmounted.
161.El
162.Sh ENVIRONMENT
163.Bl -tag -width ".Ev PATH_FSTAB"
164.It Ev PATH_FSTAB
165If the environment variable
166.Ev PATH_FSTAB
167is set, all operations are performed against the specified file.
168.Ev PATH_FSTAB
169will not be honored if the process environment or memory address space is
170considered
171.Dq tainted .
172(See
173.Xr issetugid 2
174for more information.)
175.El
176.Sh FILES
177.Bl -tag -width /etc/fstab -compact
178.It Pa /etc/fstab
179file system table
180.El
181.Sh SEE ALSO
182.Xr unmount 2 ,
183.Xr fstab 5 ,
184.Xr autounmountd 8 ,
185.Xr mount 8
186.Sh HISTORY
187A
188.Nm
189utility appeared in
190.At v1 .
191