mountpoint

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see if a directory or file is a mountpoint

User commands 6 optionsutil-linux 2.41-5

mountpoint [-d|-q] directory|file mountpoint -x device

Options

-d--fs-devno

Show the major/minor numbers of the device that is mounted on the given directory.

-q--quiet

Be quiet - don’t print anything.

--nofollow

Do not follow symbolic link if it the last element of the directory path.

-x--devno

Show the major/minor numbers of the given blockdevice on standard output.

-h--help

Display help text and exit.

-V--version

Display version and exit.

DESCRIPTION

mountpoint checks whether the given directory or file is mentioned in the /proc/self/mountinfo file.

EXIT STATUS

mountpoint has the following exit status values:

success; the directory is a mountpoint, or device is block device on --devno

failure; incorrect invocation, permissions or system error

failure; the directory is not a mountpoint, or device is not a block device on --devno

ENVIRONMENT

LIBMOUNT_DEBUG=all

enables libmount debug output.

NOTES

The util-linux mountpoint implementation was written from scratch for libmount. The original version for sysvinit suite was written by Miquel van Smoorenburg.

AUTHORS

Karel Zak kzak@redhat.com

REPORTING BUGS

For bug reports, use the issue tracker https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues.

AVAILABILITY

The mountpoint command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.