HP-UX Reference (11i v3 07/02) - 1M System Administration Commands N-Z (vol 4)

showmount(1M) showmount(1M)

NAME

showmount - show all remote mounts

SYNOPSIS

/usr/sbin/showmount

[-a][-d][

-e][host ]

DESCRIPTION

showmount lists all clients that have remotely mounted a ﬁle system from host. This information is

maintained by the

mountd server on host (see mountd(1M)). The default value for host is the value

returned by

hostname (see hostname(1)).

Options

-a Print all remote mounts in the format

hostname:directory

where hostname is the name of the client, and directory is the root of the ﬁle system that has been

mounted.

-d List directories that have been remotely mounted by clients.

-e Print the list of shared ﬁle systems.

WARNINGS

If a client crashes, executing showmount on the server will show that the client still has a ﬁle system

mounted. In other words, stale entries may accumulate for clients that crash without sending an unmount

request.

Also, if a client mounts the same remote directory twice, only one entry appears in /etc/rmtab

. Doing a

umount of one of these directories removes the single entry and showmount no longer indicates that the

remote directory is mounted.

FILES

/etc/rmtab remote mounted ﬁlesystem table

AUTHOR

showmount was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.