Your message dated Sun, 3 May 2020 22:51:43 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Documentation and message updates has caused the Debian Bug report #300960, regarding mount: add option for "no error if existing" to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: mount Version: 2.12p-3 Severity: wishlist It seems there is no test available to see if a mount is already mounted. One must do d=/mnt/extra12/wwwoffle-namazu test -d $d||mount $(dirname $d) Or mount /mnt/extra12 2>/dev/null||test $? -eq 32 #... Maybe the solution would be a "mkdir -p" like OK-if-already exists option? set -e d=/mnt/extra12/wwwoffle-namazu mount --no-error-if-existing $(dirname $d) cd $d ...
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--- Begin Message ---Hi, thank you for your reports. Please send documentation and message improvements upstream, as tracking this in Debian is a good way of them never arriving :-) See https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues Karel and team tend to react well to properly formatted patches that are useful to all distributions. Stay safe, Chris
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