1pumount(1)                  General Commands Manual                 pumount(1)
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NAME

6       pumount - umount arbitrary hotpluggable devices as normal user
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SYNOPSIS

10       pumount [ options ] device
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DESCRIPTION

14       pumount  is  a wrapper around the standard umount program which permits
15       normal users to umount removable devices without a matching  /etc/fstab
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18       pumount  also  supports  encrypted  devices which use dm-crypt and have
19       LUKS metadata. If a LUKS-capable cryptsetup is installed, pumount  will
20       umount  the  mapped  device  instead  and  call cryptsetup to close the
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23       pumount expects the device as  its  only  argument.  This  will  umount
24       device from a directory below /media if policy is met (see below).
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OPTIONS

28       -l, --lazy
29              Lazy  unmount. Detach the filesystem from the filesystem hierar‐
30              chy now, and cleanup all references to the filesystem as soon as
31              it is not busy anymore.  (Requires kernel 2.4.11 or later.)
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35              Print a help message and exit successfully.
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POLICY

47       The umount will succeed if all of the following conditions are met:
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54         device as the calling user to handle this transparently)
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SEE ALSO

63       pmount(1), umount(8)
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AUTHOR

67       pmount is developed by Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@canonical.com>.
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71Martin Pitt                     August 27, 2004                     pumount(1)