NFS Administration Guide

showmount

This command displays all the clients that have remotely mounted file systems that are shared from an NFS server, or only the file systems that are mounted by clients, or the shared file systems with the client access information. The command syntax is:

showmount [ -ade ] [ hostname ]

where -a prints a list all the remote mounts (each entry includes the client name and the directory), -d prints a list of the directories that are remotely mounted by clients, -e prints a list of the files shared (or exported), and hostname selects the NFS server to gather the information from. If hostname is not specified then the local host is queried.

Using the showmount Command

This command lists all clients and the directory that they have mounted.


# showmount -a bee
lilac:/export/share/man
lilac:/usr/src
rose:/usr/src
tulip:/export/share/man

This command lists the directories that have been mounted.


# showmount -d bee
/export/share/man
/usr/src

This command lists file systems that have been shared.


# showmount -e bee
/usr/src								(everyone)
/export/share/man					eng