NFS commands

This section describes the NFS commands in alphabetical order.

/
|-- etc
|   `-- fs
|       `-- nfs
|           |-- dfmounts
|           |-- dfshares
|           |-- mount
|           |-- share
|           |-- umount
|           `-- unshare
|-- sbin
|   |-- mount
|   |-- mountall
|   |-- umount
|   `-- umountall
`-- usr
    `-- sbin
        |-- dfmounts
        |-- dfshares
        |-- nfsstat
        |-- rpcbind
        |-- share
        |-- shareall
        |-- showmount
        |-- unshare
        `-- unshareall

Figure 5: NFS Commands

The commands shown are those required for working with NFS. The commands are entered in the POSIX shell just like POSIX commands.

The commands mount and umount are included in the basic configuration of the POSIX commands, but only in their generic form for processing local file systems. With NFS, these commands receive additional options and functions.

The commands mountall and umountall are similarly included in the basic configuration of the POSIX commands. For NFS they require no additional functionality since they obtain their specific functionality from an input file.

The NFS commands are listed in the following overview:

Command	Function
dfmounts	Output information about mounted resources
dfshares	Output information about available resources
mount	Mount remote resources
mountall	Mount multiple remote resources
nfsstat	Output statistical information
share	Make local resources available for client access
shareall	Make multiple local resources available for client access
showmount	Output information about NFS clients and resources
umount	Unmount remote resources
umountall	Unmount multiple remote resources
unshare	Make local resources unavailable
unshareall	Make multiple local resources unavailable