EXPORTS(5) — FILE FORMATS

NAME

exports − NFS file systems being exported

SYNOPSIS

/etc/exports

DESCRIPTION

The file /etc/exports describes the file systems which are being exported to nfs clients. It is created by the system administrator using a text editor and processed by the mount request daemon mountd(8C) each time a mount request is received.

The file consists of a list of file systems and the netgroup(5) or machine names allowed to remote mount each file system. The file system names are left justified and followed by a list of names separated by white space. The names will be looked up in /etc/netgroup and then in /etc/hosts. A file system name with no name list following means export to everyone. A ‘#’ anywhere in the file indicates a comment extending to the end of the line it appears on. Lines beginning with white space are continuation lines.

EXAMPLE

/usr       clients               # export to my clients
/usr/local                       # export to the world
/usr2      phoenix sun sundae    # export to only these machines

FILES

/etc/exports

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