umount
Unlink a filesystem from its mount point, making it no longer accessible. A filesystem cannot be unmounted when it is busy. More information: https://manned.org/umount.8.
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Unmount a filesystem, by passing the path to the source it is mounted from:
umount {{path/to/device_file}} -
Unmount a filesystem, by passing the path to the target where it is mounted:
umount {{path/to/mounted_directory}} -
Unmount all mounted filesystems (except the
procfilesystem):
umount -a
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