HP-UX Reference (11i v2 04/09) - 4 File Formats (vol 8)

rmtab(4) rmtab(4)

NAME

rmtab - local ﬁle system mount statistics

DESCRIPTION

File

/etc/rmtab contains a record of all clients that mounted remote ﬁle systems from this machine.

Whenever a remote mount is done, an entry is made in the

rmtab ﬁle of the machine serving that ﬁle

system.

umount removes the entry of a remotely mounted ﬁle system.

umount -a broadcasts to all

servers that they should remove all entries from

rmtab created by the sender of the broadcast message.

The table is a series of lines of the following form:

hostname

:directory

This table only preserves information between crashes, and is read only by

mountd when it starts (see

mountd(1M)).

mountd keeps an in-core table to handle requests from commands such as

showmount

and shutdown (see showmount(1M) and shutdown(1M)).

WARNINGS

Although the

rmtab table is close to the truth, it is not always totally accurate.

AUTHOR

rmtab was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

FILES

/etc/rmtab