#Is it bad practice to run umount -a instead of specifying the directory to unmount? I’ve always run umount -a to unmount my drive but i notice it unmounts a lot of other things. Is this bad?

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    6 months ago

    Using the -a option will unmount everything in /etc/mtab. You should usually be specific about what you’re unmounting. Check the umount man page for details about its options.