NFS

[so_2]

Hi how do i know that the exported to everyone file on my NFS server is mounted on any of the client?

I know showmount -e but it requires client hostname as an argument to check whether mounted on that server.

I have lot of servers in my network and dont even know their name.
Please help
Thanks in advance
S.O

[Pupil_1 · Accepted solution]

Look at the file /etc/rmtab !
man rmtab gives this ...
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.

Another interesting line from the man page ...
WARNINGS
Although the rmtab table is close to the truth, it is not always
totally accurate.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

What is mounted:

mount
# from the client

showmount -e localhost
#shows what is mounted on the server

showmount -e works by ip address, not just hostname.

SEP

[so_2]

Hi Steve,

I dont have ip address either. I dont know how many servers are there also.

Dhaneesh... I tried checking the file and is empty. Let me assume that no clients mounted from this server.

Thanks again and points are assigned.

s.o

[Pupil_1]

do an nfsstat -s and check if the server seems to serving a calls. If none, then you can be sure of it.

[so_2]

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