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Old 02-18-2010
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Hi,

I know that if we need to unmount a device, we use the command umount mount-point, example 'umount /tmp/mount1'
But We can also unmount the device with device name example 'umount /dev/hda6'.

NOTE: I think in RHEL3 we cannot unmount with device name. Correct me if I am wrong.

What is the exact syntax of this?
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Old 02-18-2010
See man umount. It immediately shows you that it takes devices or files, and that the syntax for unmounting devices is the same as that for unmounting directories.
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