github.com/containers/podman/v5@v5.1.0-rc1/docs/source/markdown/podman-unmount.1.md.in (about) 1 % podman-unmount 1 2 3 ## NAME 4 podman\-unmount - Unmount a working container's root filesystem 5 6 ## SYNOPSIS 7 **podman unmount** [*options*] *container* [...] 8 9 **podman umount** [*options*] *container* [...] 10 11 **podman container unmount** [*options*] *container* [...] 12 13 **podman container umount** [*options*] *container* [...] 14 15 ## DESCRIPTION 16 Unmounts the specified containers' root file system, if no other processes 17 are using it. 18 19 Container storage increments a mount counter each time a container is mounted. 20 When a container is unmounted, the mount counter is decremented, and the 21 container's root filesystem is physically unmounted only when the mount 22 counter reaches zero indicating no other processes are using the mount. 23 An unmount can be forced with the --force flag. 24 25 Note: Podman can be used to unmount Podman containers as well as external containers. 26 External containers are containers created in container/storage by other tools like 27 Buildah and CRI-O. 28 29 ## OPTIONS 30 #### **--all**, **-a** 31 32 All of the currently mounted containers are unmounted. 33 34 #### **--force**, **-f** 35 36 Force the unmounting of specified containers' root file system, even if other 37 processes have mounted it. 38 39 Note: Other processes can fail if the mount point they are using is removed without their knowledge. 40 41 @@option latest 42 43 ## EXAMPLE 44 45 Unmount container with a given ID: 46 ``` 47 podman container unmount containerID 48 ``` 49 50 Unmount multiple containers with given IDs: 51 ``` 52 podman unmount containerID1 containerID2 containerID3 53 ``` 54 55 Unmount all containers: 56 ``` 57 podman unmount --all 58 ``` 59 60 ## SEE ALSO 61 **[podman(1)](podman.1.md)**, **[podman-mount(1)](podman-mount.1.md)**, **[podman-image-mount(1)](podman-image-mount.1.md)**