Definition of unmount in English English dictionary
Reverse operation of mount. Instructs the operating system that the file system should be disassociated from its mount point, making it no longer accessible
Reverse operation of mount. Flushes a device, and stops all programs that are using it
To make a file system that is accessible from a specific directory on your system unavailable
To make a file system that is accessible from a specific directory on your system temporarily unavailable
The process that announces to the system that a file system previously mounted on a specified directory is to be removed Only the person who mounted the particular file system or a superuser can unmount it A file system is unmounted with the umount command See also mount
The act of revoking access to a filesystem (Note that the program that unmounts filesystems is called umount )