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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
       -h, --help
              Print help and exit.

       -q, --quiet
              Be quiet - don't print anything.

       -d, --fs-devno
              Print major/minor device number of the filesystem on stdout.

       -x, --devno
              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 <[email protected]>

ENVIRONMENT
       LIBMOUNT_DEBUG=0xffff
              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.ker‐
       nel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.




util-linux                                            June 2011                                         MOUNTPOINT(1)