SHOWMOUNT(8) BSD System Manager's Manual SHOWMOUNT(8)
showmount - show remote NFS mounts on host
showmount [-ade3] [host]
showmount shows status information about the NFS server on host. By de- fault it prints the names of all hosts that have NFS filesystems mounted on the host. See NFS: Network Filesystem Protocol Specification, RFC 1094, Appendix A, and NFS: Network Filesystem Version 3 Protocol Specification, Appendix I, for a detailed description of the protocol. -a List all mount points in the form: host:dirpath. -d List directory paths of mount points instead of hosts. -e Show the host's exports list. -3 Use mount protocol Version 3, compatible with NFS Version 3.
mount(8), mountd(8)
The showmount utility first appeared in 4.4BSD.
The mount daemon running on the server only has an idea of the actual mounts, since the NFS server is stateless. showmount will only display the information as accurately as the mount daemon reports it. MirBSD #10-current March 29, 1995 1