Disconnecting your mount point

Use the umount command to break the connection between the mount point on your client and the server. When you issue this client command, the file you were editing is released (written to DASD). You do not need to unmount after each session, unmount only when you no longer have a need to access the MVS file system. Check the documentation for your client operating system to ensure that you enter the umount command correctly.

Table 1 shows examples of the umount command for some clients.

Table 1. Examples of the umount command for clients
Client Environments	Umount Command Examples
AIX, UNIX	umount /u/smith/mnt
Solaris	umount /u/smith/mnt
Windows	nfs unlink z: (where z: is the NFS mounted drive)
Linux	umount /u/smith/mnt

In this example:

Operand: Description
u/smith/mnt: Specifies the mount point on the local file system.
mvshost1: Specifies the name of the z/OS host system.

For example, suppose that you want to unmount from the server, and the mount point on your workstation is named /u/smith/mnt. You could enter the umount command as follows:

# umount /u/smith/mnt

“No Such File or Directory” Message - The z/OS system operator can also unmount your workstation from the server. If this happens before you try to unmount, you get a “No such file or directory” error message.