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Cygwin Utilities

Section: Cygwin
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Cygwin comes with a number of command-line utilities that are used to manage the UNIX emulation portion of the Cygwin environment. While many of these reflect their UNIX counterparts, each was written specifically for Cygwin.

umount

Usage umount [-s] <posixpath>
-s = remove mount point from system-wide registry location

--remove-all-mounts = remove all mounts
--remove-auto-mounts = remove all automatically mounted mounts
--remove-user-mounts = remove all mounts in the current user mount registry area, including auto mounts
--remove-system-mounts = Remove all mounts in the system-wide mount registry area

The umount program removes mounts from the mount table. If you specify a POSIX path that corresponds to a current mount point, umount will remove it from the user-specific registry area. The -s flag may be used to specify removing the mount from the system-wide registry area instead (Administrator priviledges are required).

The umount utility may also be used to remove all mounts of a particular type. With the extended options it is possible to remove all mounts, all automatically-mounted mounts, all mounts in the current user's registry area, or all mounts in the system-wide registry area (with Administrator priviledges).

See mount for more information on the mount table.


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