UNMOUNT

Etymology

Verb

unmount (third-person singular simple present unmounts, present participle unmounting, simple past and past participle unmounted)

(computing, transitive) To reverse a mount operation; to instruct the operating system that the file system should be disassociated from its mount point, making it no longer accessible.

Synonyms

• dismount

(Unix jargon) umount

Source: Wiktionary



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