The wording in the exportfs man page can be a bit confusing, implying

that "exportfs -u :/foo" will unexport /foo from all hosts, which it won't.

This patch cleans that wording up and adds a couple examples on how to
unexport directories

Signed-off-by: Steinar H. Gunderson <sesse@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>

diff --git a/utils/exportfs/exportfs.man b/utils/exportfs/exportfs.man
index 2bd8e31519eb02fdbbf8f87531f9c5aded5cca1e..59789cc43d930e12f55c46bc03d845a77ddd34f9 100644 (file)
--- a/utils/exportfs/exportfs.man
+++ b/utils/exportfs/exportfs.man
@@ -167,11 +167,13 @@ all entries listed in
 are removed from the kernel export tables, and the file is cleared. This
 effectively shuts down all NFS activity.
 .P
 are removed from the kernel export tables, and the file is cleared. This
 effectively shuts down all NFS activity.
 .P

-To remove individual export entries, one can specify a
+To remove an export to a host, specify a

 .I host:/path
 pair. This deletes the specified entry from
 .B xtab
 and removes the corresponding kernel entry (if any).
 .I host:/path
 pair. This deletes the specified entry from
 .B xtab
 and removes the corresponding kernel entry (if any).

+To remove one or more exports to several hosts, use
+.BR "exportfs -ua" .

 .P
 .\" -------------------- Dumping the Export Table -----------------
 .SS Dumping the Export Table 
 .P
 .\" -------------------- Dumping the Export Table -----------------
 .SS Dumping the Export Table 


@@ -186,7 +188,7 @@ option, the list of flags pertaining to each export are shown in addition.
 The following adds all directories listed in
 .B /etc/exports
 to
 The following adds all directories listed in
 .B /etc/exports
 to

-.B /var/lib/nfs/xtab
+.B /var/lib/nfs/etab

 and pushes the resulting export entries into the kernel:
 .P
 .nf
 and pushes the resulting export entries into the kernel:
 .P
 .nf


@@ -202,6 +204,21 @@ allowing asynchronous writes, one would do this:
 .nf
 .B "# exportfs -o async django:/usr/tmp
 .fi
 .nf
 .B "# exportfs -o async django:/usr/tmp
 .fi

+.P
+To unexport the
+.B /usr/tmp
+directory:
+.P
+.nf
+.B "# exportfs -u django:/usr/tmp
+.fi
+.P
+To unexport all the directories listed in
+.B /etc/exports:
+.P
+.nf
+.B "# exportfs -au
+.fi

 .\" -------------------- DEPENDENCIES -----------------------------
 .SH DEPENDENCIES
 Exporting to IP networks, DNS and NIS domains does not enable clients
 .\" -------------------- DEPENDENCIES -----------------------------
 .SH DEPENDENCIES
 Exporting to IP networks, DNS and NIS domains does not enable clients