[PLUG] File test for _mounted_ CIF/SMB filesystem
Eli Stair
eli.stair at gmail.com
Tue Jul 26 17:46:51 UTC 2005
Try either autofs (4.x) or just a cron job or somesuch that does
something along the lines of:
cat /proc/mounts | grep smbfs | grep $MOUNTPOINT | grep -v grep >
/dev/null || (MOUNT COMMAND)
/eli
On 7/26/05, Roderick A. Anderson <raanders at acm.org> wrote:
> I'm looking for a slick ( one-liner? ) to test if a smbfs is mounted.
>
> I have scripts that mount shares from Win2K servers and process data
> files. Sometimes _stuff(s**t) happens_ and they get mounted twice or
> more. I prefer to not leave them mounted all the time as the processing
> times are sparse.
>
> So I'd like to test if the share is already mounted so I don't mount it
> again and if for some reason the share has been mounted multiple times I
> can umount it multiple times.
>
> I've gone over the man pages for test and umount but nothing I tried
> worked the way I hoped. That is just looking for the mount not testing
> for some file in the share which can be problematic.
>
> Ideas?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Rod
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