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I have mounted a hard disk /dev/sda1 on /media/backup. Further, I have issued the following command:

mkdir /home/users/Desktop/backup
sudo mount --bind /media/backup /home/users/Desktop/backup

This allows me to access /media/backup from /home/users/Desktop/backup as well. However, now I would like to remove the --bind from /home/users/Desktop/backup. How should I go about doing this correctly?

Do I simply remove the /home/users/Desktop/backup directory? Or should I be using umount?

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umount /home/users/Desktop/backup will remove the bind between the 2 folders.

You can then check /home/users/Desktop/backup to make sure that the bind is gone and remove the folder if you wish.

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    df is a nice command to test that. df /home/users/Desktop/backup should give different output when mounted and unmounted.
    – geirha
    Jun 27, 2012 at 11:07
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    consider mountpoint and findmnt
    – Jack Wasey
    Oct 30, 2019 at 22:57

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