# diskutil
### Mount / unmount from command line
[Source](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/256209/command-line-unmount-a-smb-network-drive): [[Stack Overflow]]
```bash
umount /Volumes/VolumeName
```
Per man umount, umount may fail for any number of reasons, and the recommend command is instead diskutil:
```bash
diskutil unmount /Volumes/VolumeName
```
### Force unmount with diskutil
```bash
diskutil unmount force /Volumes/VolumeName
```