how to dismount a mounted drive (using the command line)

**user222** · 11-13-2004

is there a command that can dismount a mounted drive???

**dylunio** · 11-13-2004

Yes;

Code:

umount

to unmount hda use

Code:

umount /dev/hda

hope this helps;
dylunio

**drakebasher** · 11-13-2004

To try to find commands that you don't know, you can use the 'apropos' command: this will search the manual pages for certain references to your keyword.

Code:

$ apropos mount

returns, among other references, the following:

Code:

setup                &#40;2&#41;  - setup devices and file systems, mount root file system
showmount            &#40;8&#41;  - show mount information for an NFS server
sleep                &#40;1&#41;  - delay for a specified amount of time
triangle             &#40;1&#41;  - random mountains using iterative subdivision of triangles
umount               &#40;8&#41;  - unmount file systems
umount &#91;mount&#93;       &#40;2&#41;  - mount and unmount filesystems
usermount            &#40;1&#41;  - A graphical tool to mount, unmount and format filesystems

And then running the man command gets full info:

Code:

$ man umount

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