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MOUNTPOINT(1) User Commands MOUNTPOINT(1)

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

Print help and exit.
Be quiet - don't print anything.
Print major/minor device number of the filesystem on stdout.
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

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/.

June 2011 util-linux