How to Change the Status of an NFS Directory

You can change the status of an NFS directory to shared or unshared. When you change the status of an NFS directory to unshared, any remote file system that has mounted the NFS directory can no longer access the files or subdirectories in the file system.


Note - Changing the status of an NFS directory to unshared does not permanently disable the sharing of the NFS directory. Instead, it changes the status of the NFS directory to inactive. To permanently disable sharing, you must remove the NFS directory. For more information, see How to Remove an NFS Directory.


To change the status of an NFS directory:

  1. From the Manage Hosts menu or the Managed Hosts page, choose the server on which the file system that you want to administer resides.
  2. From the navigation tree, choose NFS.

    The NFS Shared Resources page is displayed.

  3. In the NFS Shared Resources table, select the radio button next to the directory that has the status you want to change.
  4. From the Operations menu, choose Share or Unshare.

    The directory is redisplayed with the newly changed status value in its Current Status column.