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NFS/NIS command. NFS mount request server. mountd reads the file /etc/exports to determine which filesystems are available for mounting by which machines. It also provides information about which filesystems are mounted by which clients. See also nfsd.
Options
-dkind, --debugkind
Specify debugging facility. Accepted values for kind are general, call, auth, parse, and all.
-ffile, --exports-filefile
Read the export permissions from file instead of /etc/exports.
-F, --foreground
Run mountd in the foreground.
-h, --help
Print help message, then exit.
-n, --no-tcp
Use UDP for mounts.
-Nn, --no-nfs-versionn
Do not offer NFS version n.
-on, --descriptorsn
Allow no more than n open file descriptors. The default is 256.
-pn, --portn
Bind to specified port instead of accepting a port from portmapper.