Unmount the directory which is mounted by sshfs in Mac [closed]

Question

Try this:

umount -f <absolute pathname to the mount point>

Example:

umount -f /Users/plummie/Documents/stanford 

If that doesn't work, try the same command as root:

sudo umount -f ...

Don't use umount.

Use

fusermount -u PATH

sudo diskutil unmount force PATH 

Works every time :)
Notice the force tag

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.)

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

The following worked for me:

hdiutil detach <path to sshfs mount>

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.