[Techtalk] checking mounts

[Miriam English]

Hi Joana,

Damn! I knew about mtab, yet I spent hours trying various other things. 
Amazing how the human mind can get tunnel-vision. :)
It occurs to me that mtab could be prone to the same name problems as 
those that Sarah pointed out for the mount command in her reply.

Thanks Joana.

	- Miriam

Joana Botto wrote:
> Hi Miriam,
> 
> What I usually do to see the mounted partitions is to type mount at
> the command prompt or cat /etc/mtab.
> 
> So, to check if sdb is mounted:
> $ grep sdb1 /etc/mtab
> 
> If there is no output it's not mounted.
> 
> Regards,
> Joana Botto
> 
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Miriam English <mim at miriam-english.org> wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I want to make a shell script check whether a device is mounted or not.
>>
>> Anyone know how to do this? There has to be a way...
>>
>> It is not terribly important, just a script for myself to make my own
>> life easier, but it is starting to really bug me and if I don't ask
>> someone I just know I'll end up wasting hours and hours looking for the
>> stupid thing. :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>        - Miriam
>>
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