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The limitations of Single-User Mode and the changes in Mojave & Catalina have been covered before. In particular why you can't unmount the system volume. I don't think it needs repeating again (unless someone want to add changes in Big Sur). Read this:
fsck_apfs not working from terminal in single user mode
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