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-.TH UMOUNT 8 "26 July 1997" "Linux 2.0" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH UMOUNT 8 "March 2010" "util-linux" "System Administration"
.SH NAME
umount \- unmount file systems
.SH SYNOPSIS
and cleanup all references to the filesystem as soon as it is not busy
anymore.
(Requires kernel 2.4.11 or later.)
+.IP "\fB\-\-no\-canonicalize\fP"
+Don't canonicalize paths. For more details about this option see the
+.B mount(8)
+man page.
+.IP "\fB\-\-fake\fP"
+Causes everything to be done except for the actual system call; this
+``fakes'' unmounting the filesystem. It can be used to remove
+entries from
+.I /etc/mtab
+that were unmounted earlier with the -n option.
.SH "THE LOOP DEVICE"
The
.BI /sbin/umount. <suffix>
.RI { dir | device }
.RB [ \-nlfvr ]
+.RB [ \-t
+.IR type.subtype ]
.br
-where the <suffix> is filesystem type or a value from "uhelper=" mtab option.
+where the <suffix> is filesystem type or a value from "uhelper=" or "helper="
+mtab option. The \-t option is used for filesystems with subtypes support
+(for example /sbin/mount.fuse -t fuse.sshfs).
-The uhelper (unprivileged umount helper) is possible to used when non-root user
+The uhelper= (unprivileged umount helper) is possible to use when non-root user
wants to umount a mountpoint which is not defined in the /etc/fstab file (e.g
-devices mounted by HAL).
+devices mounted by udisk).
+
+The helper= mount option redirects all umount requests to the
+/sbin/umount.<helper> independently on UID.
.SH FILES
.I /etc/mtab
.B umount
command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.
.SH AVAILABILITY
-The umount command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from
-ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.
+The umount command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
+ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.