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Chapter 5. Unmounting Ceph File Systems

This chapter describes how to unmount Ceph File System mounted as kernel or File System in User Space (FUSE) clients.

This section shows how to unmount a Ceph File System that is mounted as a kernel client.

Procedure

  • To unmount a Ceph File System mounted as a kernel client: 

    umount <mount-point>
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    Specify the mount point where the file system is mounted: 

    [root@client ~]# umount /mnt/cephfs
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Additional Resources

  • The umount(8) manual page

This section shows how to unmount a Ceph File System that is mounted as a File System in User Space (FUSE) client.

Procedure

  • To unmount a Ceph File System mounted in FUSE: 

    fusermount -u <mount-point>
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    Specify the mount point where the file system is mounted 

    [root@client ~]# fusermount -u /mnt/cephfs
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Additional Resources

  • The ceph-fuse(8) manual page
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