guestunmount(1)
NAME
guestunmount - Unmount a guestmounted filesystem
SYNOPSIS
guestunmount mountpoint
guestunmount --fd=<FD> mountpoint
DESCRIPTION
guestunmount is a utility to clean up mounted filesystems automatically. guestmount(1) mounts filesystems using libguestfs. This program unmounts the filesystem when a program or script has finished with it. guestunmount is a wrapper around the FUSE fusermount(1) program, which must exist on the current "PATH". There are two ways to use guestunmount. When called as: guestunmount mountpoint it unmounts "mountpoint" immediately. When called as: guestunmount --fd=FD mountpoint it waits until the pipe "FD" is closed. This can be used to monitor another process and clean up its mountpoint when that process exits, as described below. FROM PROGRAMS You can just call "guestunmount mountpoint" from the program, but a more sophisticated way to use guestunmount is to have it monitor your program so it can clean up the mount point if your program exits unexpectedly. In the program, create a pipe (eg. by calling pipe(2)). Let "FD" be the file descriptor number of the read side of the pipe (ie. "pipefd[0]"). After mounting the filesystem with guestmount(1) (on "mountpoint"), fork and run guestunmount like this: guestunmount --fd=FD mountpoint Close the read side of the pipe in the parent process. Now, when the write side of the pipe (ie. "pipefd[1]") is closed for any reason, either explicitly or because the parent process exits, guestunmount notices and unmounts the mountpoint. If your operating system supports it, you should set the "FD_CLOEXEC" flag on the write side of the pipe. This is so that other child processes don't inherit the file descriptor and keep it open. Guestunmount never daemonizes itself. FROM SHELL SCRIPTS Since bash doesn't provide a way to create an unnamed pipe, use a trap to call guestunmount on exit like this: trap "guestunmount mountpoint" EXIT INT QUIT TERM
OPTIONS
--fd=FD
Specify the pipe file descriptor to monitor, and delay cleanup
until that pipe is closed.
--help
Display brief help and exit.
-q
--quiet
Don't display error messages from fusermount. The return status is
still set (see "EXIT STATUS" below).
--no-retry
--retry=N
By default, guestunmount will retry the fusermount operation up to
5times (that is, it will run it up to 6times = 1try +
5retries).
Use --no-retry to make guestunmount run fusermount only once.
Use --retry=N to make guestunmount retry "N" times instead of 5.
guestunmount performs an exponential back-off between retries,
waiting 1second, 2seconds, 4seconds, etc before each retry.
-V
--version
Display the program version and exit.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
"PATH"
The fusermount(1) program (supplied by FUSE) must be available on
the current "PATH".
EXIT STATUS
This program returns 0 if successful, or one of the following error
codes:
1 Program error, eg. could not allocate memory, could not run
fusermount. See the error message printed for more information.
2 The mount point could not be unmounted even after retrying. See
the error message printed for the underlying fusermount error.
3 The mount point is not mounted.
SEE ALSO
guestmount(1), fusermount(1), pipe(2), "MOUNT LOCAL" in guestfs(3), http://libguestfs.org/, http://fuse.sf.net/.
AUTHORS
Richard W.M. Jones ("rjones at redhat dot com")
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2013 Red Hat Inc.
LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
BUGS
To get a list of bugs against libguestfs, use this link:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools
To report a new bug against libguestfs, use this link:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools
When reporting a bug, please supply:
* The version of libguestfs.
* Where you got libguestfs (eg. which Linux distro, compiled from
source, etc)
* Describe the bug accurately and give a way to reproduce it.
* Run libguestfs-test-tool(1) and paste the complete, unedited output
into the bug report.
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