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From: lthompso@hpcc01.HP.COM (Larry L. Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: detecting a file system mounted via NFS
Message-ID: <2620003@hpcc01.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Jun 91 20:04:50 GMT
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Organization: HP Corp Computing & Services
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>If I have a file system mounted on my host from a remote host through NFS, is
>there a way that that file system can be detected as being mounted on it?
>
>I want to be able to do this in order to allow checking of these file systems
>before shutting down so that they can be properly umounted from the remote
>host rather than having to time out each time they are checked.
>
>I guess a script which performs a 'df' on all systems would be possible, if
>not extremely sluggish, and I didn't see anything from netstat.
>
>Any suggestions?

/usr/etc/shoumount will give you this information. Be very careful, if any
client shutdown ungracefully this file will not tell truth. Read the man page
very carefully.

Larry

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