Re: check mount
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 09:32:45PM CEST, Pol Hallen <deben@fuckaround.org> said:
> Hi all :-)
>
> mount -t cifs //server/share /local -o [...]
>
> I do this mount via vpn (over internet), How I check if this mount point
> is active? If there's a alive connection?
>
> Because (by cron) I run some scripts to do operations.
>
> PS: If internet connection goes down, this mount point will not be
> alive. How I check it?
>
> thanks!
>
> Pol
the mountpoint command will tell you wether a specific directory is a mountpoint or not.
I use it to check that an encrypted disk is mounted before starting
programs which need data on this partition.
if mountpoint -q $SECURE_MOUNTPOINT ;then
exec $PROGRAM
fi
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