On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 09:50:53AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > Debian already provides an email facility that allows cron scripts to > email me with error messages. I need a way to test in Bash whether, or > not, there actually is a disk mounted at /media/wdp8. > > What test can I code in Bash to determine that there is no disk > mounted at this mount point? I'm thinking of testing for the > presence of the file lost+found, but is there something better? > Rather than looking for lost+found (which could be any disk), I'd look for an identification file that you put on that disk. For instance, /media/wdp8/.backupdrive1
I guess you could also grep /etc/mtab for /media/wdp8, but I'm not sure if that's 100% reliable. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120720162714.gb11...@aurora.owens.net
