Re: quick scripting 'is /P/Q mounted'
On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:49:56 +0100
<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
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> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 10:33:43PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
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> > Unless I've misunderstood the question, you can tell if something
> > is mounted at a mount point by checking if anything is present
> > under the mount point [...]
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> Not if the file system is really empty (and no, lost+found doesn't
> really count, since not all file systems have that).
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But one use-case is unattended synchronisation, possibly over a network.
If the directory is mounted, but with some kind of problem, then a check
for mounting could succeed without any data being visible to the
synchronising application. In the worst case, the backup directory
might be synchronised to an apparently empty one....
I prefer to test for the existence of a known lower directory in this
case, which tests not only for mounting but for a successful read.
--
Joe
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