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I use to have a Linux server that I had shares on, and I had them mounted on my OS X machine, but I no longer have this server and the shares are still there and they will not unmount (and even force unmounting them does nothing). Is there anything I can do in the command line to remove them?

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Try

diskutil unmount /path_to_mount_point

For example, to unmount a USB key on my system, I would do:

diskutil unmount /Volumes/myUSB

You may also need to include sudo before the command.

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The problem is they are not mounted anywhere. Currently they only place they are shown is on the desktop (ie Not in the list of connected drives in Finder) – Brandon Jan 30 '11 at 5:14
If they're not mounted why would you want to unmount them? Do you mean the folders are still there? Why not just delete them by moving them to the trash? – aqua Jan 30 '11 at 5:18
This is what is on my desktop: cl.ly/4Hve – Brandon Jan 30 '11 at 5:22
And this is what happens when I drag it to the trash: cl.ly/4HJE – Brandon Jan 30 '11 at 5:22
Hmm, OK. So you did try doing sudo diskutil unmount /Users/<yourUserName>/Desktop/home, and it still did not work, correct? – aqua Jan 30 '11 at 5:28
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