unmount

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ mount.

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  • Rhymes: -aʊnt

Verb

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

  1. (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.
    Please unmount the external hard drive before unplugging it.
    You must unmount the filesystem before running the data recovery tool.

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