rmmount

, rmumount

- mounts and unmounts removable media

Synopsis

rmmount  [-u] [-o options] [nickname | device] [mount_point]

rmmount  [-d] [-l]

rmumount  [nickname | mount_point | device]

rmumount  [-d] [-l]

Description

The rmmount and rmumount utilities mount and unmount removable or hot-pluggable volumes. The optional argument can identify the volume by its volume label, mount point or block device path.

rmmount can also take additional mount options if the user has sufficient privileges to override the default mount options.

Unmounting removable media does not result in its ejection. Use eject(1) to optionally unmount and eject the media.

Options

The following options are supported for rmmount and rmumount:

-d

Display the device path of the default device. This device is used if no arguments are supplied.

-l

Display the paths and nicknames of mountable devices.

The following options are supported for rmmount only:

-o options

Display mount options. This option can only be used by users that have privileges to override the system default options.

-u

Unmounts the volume as opposed to mounting it.

Operands

The following operands are supported:

device

Specifies which device to mount or unmount, by the name it appears in the directory /dev.

mount_point

Specifies which device to mount or unmount, by the name it appears in the directory /dev.

nickname

Specifies which device to mount or unmount, by its nickname as known to this command.

Examples

Example 1 Mounting a USB disk

The following example mounts a USB disk with a volume label of PHOTOS:

example% rmmount PHOTOS

Example 2 Unmounting a pcfs Volume

The following example unmounts a pcfs volume by device path:

example% rmumount /dev/dsk/c4t0d0p0:1

Exit Status

The following exit values are returned:

0

Successful completion.

>0

An error occurred.

Files

/media

Default mount root.

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

See Also

eject(1), attributes(5)