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Uninstall vs Unmount - What's the difference?

uninstall | unmount |

As verbs the difference between uninstall and unmount

is that uninstall is (computing) to completely remove hardware or software from a computer system while unmount is (computing|transitive) to reverse a mount operation; to instruct the operating system that the file system should be disassociated from its mount point, making it no longer accessible.

uninstall

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (computing) To completely remove hardware or software from a computer system.

    • Derived terms

    * uninstaller

    Related terms

    * uninstallation

    unmount

    English

    (wikipedia unmount)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (computing) To reverse a mount operation; to instruct the operating system that the file system should be disassociated from its mount point, making it no longer accessible.

    • Synonyms

    * dismount * (Unix jargon) umount