-------------------------------------------------- From: "Nadeem M. Khan" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 9:47 AM To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] running script only if USB is mounted
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Binand Sethumadhavan <[email protected]> > wrote: >> All mounted filesystems have an entry in /proc/mounts. Your script can >> take advantage of this. >> >> if ! grep -q /backup /proc/mounts; then >> if ! mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /backup; then >> exit 1; # Mount failed, bail out >> fi >> fi > > another non-portable way of checking it is df -l. > > Regards, > NMK. > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > Thank you Nadeem, will check out this script and revert in case of it not working, etc. Regards Kshitiz -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
