NAME¶

mountpoint - see if a directory is a mountpoint

SYNOPSIS¶

mountpoint [-q] [-d] directory

mountpoint -x device

DESCRIPTION¶

mountpoint checks if the directory is mentioned in the /proc/self/mountinfo file.

OPTIONS¶

-h, --help

Print help and exit.

-q, --quiet

Be quiet - don't print anything.

-d, --fs-devno

Print major/minor device number of the filesystem on stdout.

-x, --devno

Print major/minor device number of the blockdevice on stdout.

EXIT STATUS¶

Zero if the directory is a mountpoint, non-zero if not.

AUTHOR¶

Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>

ENVIRONMENT¶

LIBMOUNT_DEBUG=0xffff

enables 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.

SEE ALSO¶

mount(8)

AVAILABILITY¶

The mountpoint command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.