NAME

rmtab − local file system mount statistics

DESCRIPTION

Rmtab resides in directory /etc and contains a record of all clients that have done remote mounts of file systems from this machine.  Whenever a remote mount is done, an entry is made in the rmtab file of the machine serving up that file system.  Umount removes entries, if of a remotely mounted file system.  Umount −a broadcasts to all servers, and informs them that they should remove all entries from rmtab created by the sender of the broadcast message.  By placing a umount −a command in /etc/rc.boot, rmtab tables can be purged of entries made by a crashed host, which upon rebooting did not remount the same file systems it had before.  The table is a series of lines of the form

 hostname:directory

This table is used only to preserve information between crashes, and is read only by mountd(8) when it starts up. Mountd keeps an in-core table, which it uses to handle requests from programs like showmount(1) and shutdown(8).

FILES

/etc/rmtab

SEE ALSO

showmount(1), mountd(8), mount(8), umount(8), shutdown(8)

BUGS

Although the rmtab table is close to the truth, it is not always 100% accurate. 

7th Edition  —  Revision 1.3 of 19/10/88