[PATCH] Clarify language in man exportfs

[PATCH] Clarify language in man exportfs

[Steinar H. Gunderson]

(I still have two pending minor patches, by the way :-) )

As discussed in a user case earlier, 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. Thus, make the language clearer -- based on
suggestion/patch from David Liontooth.

Signed-off-by: Steinar H. Gunderson <sesse@debian.org>

--- nfs-utils-1.1.1.orig/utils/exportfs/exportfs.man
+++ nfs-utils-1.1.1/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
-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).
+To remove one or more exports to several hosts, use
+.BR "exportfs -ua" .
 .P
 .\" -------------------- Dumping the Export Table -----------------
 .SS Dumping the Export Table 

/* Steinar */
-- 
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Re: [PATCH] Clarify language in man exportfs

[Steve Dickson]

Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> (I still have two pending minor patches, by the way :-) )
> 
> As discussed in a user case earlier, 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. Thus, make the language clearer -- based on
> suggestion/patch from David Liontooth.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steinar H. Gunderson <sesse@debian.org>
Committed.

Also added some examples on how to unexport directories.

steved.

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