---
title: "Force unmount of NFS share"
date: "2013-05-21"
path: "/137-force-unmount-of-nfs-share.html"
section: "/ramblings"
aliases:
  - "/137"
  - "/137-force-unmount-of-nfs-share"
  - "/137.html"
  - "/ramblings/137-force-unmount-of-nfs-share.html"
---

If you need to forcibly unmount a NFS share the following does the trick:

```
umount.nfs /backups -f
```