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31.Dd June 19, 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 are unmounted,
73except for those mounted at
74.Pa /
75or
76.Pa /dev .
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.
86For NFS, a forced dismount can take up to 1 minute or more to
87complete against an unresponsive server and may throw away
88data not yet written to the server for this case.
89If a process, such as
90.Nm
91without the
92.Fl f
93flag is hung on an
94.Tn NFS
95mount point, use the
96.Fl N
97flag instead.
98Also, doing a forced dismount of an NFSv3 mount when
99.Xr rpc.lockd 8
100is running is unsafe and can result in a crash.
101.It Fl h Ar host
102Only file systems mounted from the specified host will be
103unmounted.
104This option implies the
105.Fl A
106option and, unless otherwise specified with the
107.Fl t
108option, will only unmount
109.Tn NFS
110file systems.
111.It Fl N
112Do a forced dismount of an
113.Tn NFS
114mount point without checking the mount path.
115This option can only be used with the path to the mount point
116.Ar node
117and the path must be specified exactly as it was at mount time.
118This option is useful when a process is hung waiting for an unresponsive
119.Tn NFS
120server while holding a vnode lock on the mounted-on vnode, such that
121.Nm
122with the
123.Fl f
124flag can't complete.
125Using this option can result in a loss of file updates that have not been
126flushed to the
127.Tn NFS
128server.
129.It Fl n
130Unless the
131.Fl f
132is used, the
133.Nm
134will not unmount an active file system.
135It will, however, perform a flush.
136This flag disables this behaviour, preventing the flush
137if there are any files open.
138.It Fl t Ar type
139Is used to indicate the actions should only be taken on
140file systems of the specified type.
141More than one type may be specified in a comma separated list.
142The list of file system types can be prefixed with
143.Dq no
144to specify the file system types for which action should
145.Em not
146be taken.
147For example, the
148.Nm
149command:
150.Bd -literal -offset indent
151umount -a -t nfs,nullfs
152.Ed
153.Pp
154unmounts all file systems of the type
155.Tn NFS
156and
157.Tn NULLFS
158that are listed in the
159.Xr fstab 5
160file.
161.It Fl v
162Verbose, additional information is printed out as each file system
163is unmounted.
164.El
165.Sh ENVIRONMENT
166.Bl -tag -width ".Ev PATH_FSTAB"
167.It Ev PATH_FSTAB
168If the environment variable
169.Ev PATH_FSTAB
170is set, all operations are performed against the specified file.
171.Ev PATH_FSTAB
172will not be honored if the process environment or memory address space is
173considered
174.Dq tainted .
175(See
176.Xr issetugid 2
177for more information.)
178.El
179.Sh FILES
180.Bl -tag -width /etc/fstab -compact
181.It Pa /etc/fstab
182file system table
183.El
184.Sh SEE ALSO
185.Xr unmount 2 ,
186.Xr fstab 5 ,
187.Xr autounmountd 8 ,
188.Xr mount 8
189.Sh HISTORY
190A
191.Nm
192utility appeared in
193.At v1 .
194