1.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 5.\" Rick Macklem at The University of Guelph. 6.\" 7.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 8.\" 9.\" @(#)showmount.8 6.3 (Berkeley) 03/16/91 10.\" 11.Dd 12.Dt SHOWMOUNT 8 13.Os BSD 4 14.Sh NAME 15.Nm showmount 16.Nd show remote nfs mounts on host 17.Sh SYNOPSIS 18.Nm showmount 19.Op Fl ade 20.Op Ar host 21.Sh DESCRIPTION 22.Nm Showmount 23shows status information about the 24.Tn NFS 25server on 26.Ar host . 27By default it prints the names of all hosts that have 28.Tn NFS 29file systems mounted 30on the host. See 31.%T "NFS: Network File System Protocol Specification" , 32RFC 1094, 33Appendix A , 34for a detailed desciption of the protocol. 35.Bl -tag -width Ds 36.It Fl a 37List all mount points in the form: 38.Bd -ragged -offset indent -compact 39.Ar host : Ns Ar dirpath 40.Ed 41.It Fl d 42List directory paths of mount points instead of hosts 43.It Fl e 44Show the 45.Ar host Ns 's 46exports list 47.El 48.Sh SEE ALSO 49.Xr mount 1 , 50.Xr mountd 8 51.Sh BUGS 52The mount daemon running on the server only has an idea of the actual mounts, 53since the 54.Tn NFS 55server is stateless. 56.Nm Showmount 57will only display the information 58as accurately as the mount daemon reports it. 59.Sh HISTORY 60The 61.Nm 62command 63.Ud 64