showmount

show remote NFS mounts on host

Syntax:

showmount [-ade] [host]

Options:

-a

List all mount points in this form: host:dirpath

-d

Instead of printing the names of hosts, list the directory paths of mount points.

-e

Show the host's exports list.

host

The name of a host (default is this host).

Description:

The showmount utility shows status information about the NFS server on the specified host. By default, it prints the names of all hosts that have NFS filesystems mounted on that host.

Caveats:

Because the NFS server is stateless, the mount daemon (mountd) running on the server has only an approximate idea of the actual mounts. The showmount utility displays this information as accurately as the mount daemon reports it.

See also:

mountd, mount_nfs

RFC 1094 (Appendix A: ``Mount Protocol Definition'')