debian man page for rmtab

rmtab(4)                                                           File Formats                                                           rmtab(4)

NAME
       rmtab - remote mounted file system table

SYNOPSIS
       /etc/rmtab

DESCRIPTION
       rmtab  contains  a  table of filesystems that are remotely mounted by NFS clients. This file is maintained by mountd(1M), the mount daemon.
       The data in this file should be obtained only from  mountd(1M) using the MOUNTPROC_DUMP remote procedure call.

       The file contains a line of information for each remotely mounted filesystem. There are a number of lines of the form:

       hostname:fsname

       The mount daemon adds an entry for any client that successfully executes a mount request and deletes the appropriate entries for an unmount
       request.

       Lines  beginning  with a hash (' #') are commented out. These lines are removed from the file by mountd(1M) when it first starts up.  Stale
       entries may accumulate for clients that crash without sending an unmount request.

FILES
       /etc/rmtab

SEE ALSO
       mountd(1M), showmount(1M)

SunOS 5.10                                                          15 Nov 1990                                                           rmtab(4)