---
name: "umount.davfs"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "davfs2"
version: "1.7.3-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/umount.davfs"
---

# umount.davfs(8)

Umount-helper to unmount a davfs2 file system

## NAME

umount.davfs - Umount-helper to unmount a davfs2 file system

## SYNOPSIS

**umount.davfs \[-h \| --help\] \[-V \| --version\]**\
 **umount** *dir*

## SYNOPSIS (root only)

**umount.davfs** *dir*

## DESCRIPTION

**umount.davfs** is a umount helper program. It is called by the [**umount**(8)](/umount/8.md) command. Its purpose is to prevent the umount command from returning unless **mount.davfs** has synchronized all its cached files with the webdav server.

*dir* is the mountpoint where the WebDAV resource is mounted on. It may be an absolute or relative path.

While for local file systems [**umount**(8)](/umount/8.md) will only return when all cached data have been written to disk, this is not automatically true for a mounted **davfs2** file system. With this umount helper the user can rely on the familiar behaviour of [**umount**(8)](/umount/8.md). To inform the operating system that the file system uses a network connection, you should always use the **\_netdev** option, when mounting as **davfs2** file system.

Depending on the amount of data and the quality of the connection, unmounting a **davfs2** file system may take some seconds up to some hours.

If the **mount.davfs** daemon encountered serious errors, **umount.davfs** may return an error instead of unmounting the file system. In this case try **umount -i**. The **-i** option will prevent [**umount**(8)](/umount/8.md) from calling **umount.davfs**.

## OPTIONS

- **-V --version**

  Output version.

- **-h --help**

  Print a help message.

- **-f -l -n -r -v -t**

  This options are **ignored**. They are only recognized for compatibility with [**umount**(8)](/umount/8.md).

## FILES

- */var/run/mount.davfs*

  PID-files of running **umount.davfs** processes are looked up here.

## BUGS

No known bugs.

## AUTHORS

This man page was written by Werner Baumann \<werner.baumann@onlinehome.de\>.

## DAVFS2 HOME

https://github.com/alisarctl/davfs2

## SEE ALSO

[**mount.davfs**(8)](/mount.davfs/8.md), [**umount**(8)](/umount/8.md), [**davfs2.conf**(5)](/davfs2.conf/5.md), [**fstab**(5)](/fstab/5.md)