[PLUG] File test for _mounted_ CIF/SMB filesystem

[Roderick A. Anderson]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Eli Stair wrote:

> 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)

This works great.  And incase some brain-dead bozo developer ( me ) gets 
on the system and mounts the file system then forgets to un-mount it; 
this, based on your suggestion, works.

while $(cat /proc/mounts | grep smbfs | grep $MOUNTPOINT ) ; \
    do umount $MOUNTPOINT ; done

Thanks Eli.


Rod
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