# Deleting mount targets
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When you delete a mount target, the operation forcibly breaks any mounts of the file system, which might disrupt instances or applications using those mounts. To avoid application disruption, stop applications and unmount the file system before deleting the mount target. For more information, see [Unmounting file systems](unmounting-fs.md).

You can delete mount targets for a file system by using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or programmatically by using the AWS SDKs.

## Using the console
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Use the following procedure to delete mount targets for an existing EFS file system.

**To delete mount targets on an EFS file system**

1. Unmount the file system. For instructions, see [Unmounting file systems](unmounting-fs.md).

1. Open the Amazon Elastic File System console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/efs/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/efs/).

1. In the left navigation pane, choose **File systems**, and then select the file system for which you want to delete the mount target.

1. Choose **Network** and then choose **Manage** to display the mount targets for the file system.

1. For each mount target you want to delete, choose **Remove**.

1. Choose **Save**.

## Using the AWS CLI
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To delete an existing mount target, use the `delete-mount-target` AWS CLI command (corresponding operation is [DeleteMountTarget](API_DeleteMountTarget.md)), as shown following.

**Note**  
Before deleting a mount target, first unmount the file system.

```
$ aws efs delete-mount-target \
--mount-target-id mount-target-ID-to-delete \
--region aws-region-where-mount-target-exists
```

The following is an example with sample data.

```
$ aws efs delete-mount-target \
--mount-target-id fsmt-5751852e \
--region us-east-2 \
```