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Lance A. Brown brown9@niehs.nih.gov wrote:
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Paul Lupa paul.lupa@motorola.com kindly reminded that
showmount -a filername
from a UNIX host will display the information I am after.
The command 'exportfs' on the filer itself, will also display the currently exported volumes.
But that, of course, gives equivalent information only to "showmount -e". For the other (and more usual) options of showmount, you need to do it from a remote machine: and these are the ones to which Adam Fox's warning specifically applies.
On NFS systems of any sort, /etc/rmtab is notorious for accumulating junk entries for long-gone hosts and directories, as it has no sort of corrective process to cause it to reconverge on reality.
Hmmm... I was just about to comment on the way that /etc/rmtab grows without limit (full of deleted entries) between reboots on NetApp filers... but I've just noticed that this doesn't happen any longer in 6.1R1 (maybe earlier 6.x as well)!
Chris Thompson University of Cambridge Computing Service, Email: cet1@ucs.cam.ac.uk New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QG, Phone: +44 1223 334715 United Kingdom.