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