# Unmounting caches Before you delete a cache, we recommend that you unmount it from every Amazon EC2 instance that it's connected to. You can unmount a cache on your Amazon EC2 instance by running the `umount` command on the instance itself. You can't unmount a cache through the AWS CLI, the AWS Management Console, or through any of the AWS SDKs. To unmount a cache connected to an Amazon EC2 instance running Linux, use the `umount` command as follows: ``` umount /mnt ``` We recommend that you don't specify any other `umount` options and avoid setting any other `umount` options that are different from the defaults. You can verify that your cache has been unmounted by running the `df` command. This command displays the disk usage statistics for the Amazon File Caches currently mounted on your Linux-based Amazon EC2 instance. If the cache that you want to unmount isn’t listed in the `df` command output, this means that the cache is unmounted. **Example – Identify the mount status of an Amazon File Cache resource and unmount it** ``` $ df -T Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on cache_id.fsx.aws-region.amazonaws.com@tcp:/mountname /mnt 3547708416 61440 3547622400 1% /mnt /dev/sda1 ext4 8123812 1138920 6884644 15% / ``` ``` $ umount /mnt ``` ``` $ df -T ``` ``` Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 ext4 8123812 1138920 6884644 15% / ```