Unmount the directory which is mounted by sshfs in Mac

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I ve installed OSXFUSE in my mac and used sshfs to mount a remote directory  Now I would like to unmount it  but can t find the way   My OS is OSX 10 8 Mountain   Can anyone help

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If you have a problems with fusermount command you can kill the process       ps -ax   grep  sshfs

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If your problem is that you mounted a network drive with SSHFS  but the ssh connection got cut and you simply cannot remount it because of an error like mount osxfuse  mount point  Users your user mount folder is itself on a OSXFUSE volume  the github user theunsa found a solution that works for me  Quoting his answer     My current workaround is to   Find the culprit sshfs process     pgrep -lf sshfs   Kill it     kill -9  lt pid of sshfs process gt    sudo force unmount the  unavailable  directory     sudo umount -f  lt mounted dir gt    Remount the now  available  directory with sshfs     and then tomorrow morning go back to step 1

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use ps aux   grep sshfs to find the PID of sshfs  It will be the number next to the username   Then kill -9  PID  if the other solutions don t work

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Just for reference I found this worked for me    diskutil unmount  path to directory   When I used the umount command I got an error that recommended this diskutil command

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Don t use umount   Use  fusermount -u PATH

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Just as reference let me quote the osxfuse FAQ     4 8  How should I unmount my  FUSE for OS X  file system  I cannot find the fusermount program anywhere       Just use the standard umount command in OS X  You do not need the Linux-specific fusermount with  FUSE for OS X     As mentioned above  either diskutil unmount or umount should work

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At least in 10 11  El Capitan   the man page for umount indicates      Due to the complex and interwoven nature of Mac OS X  umount may fail   often   It is recommended that diskutil 1   as in   diskutil unmount    mnt   be used instead    This approach  e g    diskutil umount path to mount point   allows me to unmount sshfs-mounted content  and does not require sudo    And I believe that it should work back through at least 10 8

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Try this   umount -f  lt absolute pathname to the mount point gt    Example   umount -f  Users plummie Documents stanford    If that doesn t work  try the same command as root    sudo umount -f

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You can always do this from finder  Simply navigate to the directory above where the mount is and hit the eject icon over the mounted folder  which will have SSHFS in the name  in the finder   A shortcut to open a folder in the finder from the terminal is   open    which will open up the current directory in a new finder window  Replace     with your directory of choice

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sudo diskutil unmount force PATH    Works every time    Notice the force tag

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if you want to kill all mounted sshfs connections you can use this  I tried it with ubuntu  ps -ef   grep  quot sshfs quot    awk   print  2     xargs kill -9  I added it to bash aliases

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In my case  Mac OS Mojave   the key is to use the full path   umount -f  Volumnes fullpath folder

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The following worked for me   hdiutil detach  lt path to sshfs mount gt    Example   hdiutil detach  Users user1 sshfs   One can also locate the volume created by sshfs in Finder  right-click  and select Eject   Which is  to the best of my knowledge  the GUI version of the above command

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