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MOUNTPOINT

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
EXIT STATUS
ENVIRONMENT
NOTES
AUTHORS
SEE ALSO
REPORTING BUGS
AVAILABILITY

NAME

mountpoint - see if a directory or file is a mountpoint

SYNOPSIS

mountpoint [ -d | -q ] directory | file

mountpoint -x device

DESCRIPTION

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

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.

EXIT STATUS

mountpoint has the following exit status values:

0

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

1

failure; incorrect invocation, permissions or system error

32

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>

SEE ALSO

mount (8)

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/>.