Running the mount command without arguments will tell you the current mounts. From a shell script, you can check for the mount point with grep and an if-statement:
if mount | grep /mnt/md0 > /dev/null; then
echo "yay"
else
echo "nay"
fi
In my example, the if-statement is checking the exit code of grep, which indicates if there was a match. Since I don't want the output to be displayed when there is a match, I'm redirecting it to /dev/null.
checks whether the given directory or file is mentioned in the /proc/self/mountinfo file.
The manual of mount says that:
The listing mode is maintained for backward compatibility only. For
more robust and customizable output use findmnt(8), especially in your
scripts.
So the correct command to use is findmnt, which is itself part of the util-linux package and, according to the manual:
is able to search in /etc/fstab, /etc/mtab or /proc/self/mountinfo
So it actually searches more things than mountpoint. It also provides the convenient option:
-M, --mountpoint path
Explicitly define the mountpoint file or directory. See also --target.
In summary, to check whether a directory is mounted with bash, you can use:
if [[ $(findmnt -M "$FOLDER") ]]; then
echo "Mounted"
else
echo "Not mounted"
fi
Example:
mkdir -p /tmp/foo/{a,b}
cd /tmp/foo
sudo mount -o bind a b
touch a/file
ls b/ # should show file
rm -f b/file
ls a/ # should show nothing
[[ $(findmnt -M b) ]] && echo "Mounted"
sudo umount b
[[ $(findmnt -M b) ]] || echo "Unmounted"
is_mount /path/to/var/run/mydir/ || mount --bind /var/run/mydir/ /path/to/var/run/mydir/
For Mark J. Bobak's answer, mountpoint not work if mount with bind option in different filesystem.
For Christopher Neylan's answer, it's not need to redirect grep's output to /dev/null, just use grep -q instead.
The most important, canonicalize the path by using readlink -f $mypath:
If you check path such as /path/to/dir/ end with backslash, the path in /proc/mounts or mount output is /path/to/dir
In most linux release, /var/run/ is the symlink of /run/, so if you mount bind for /var/run/mypath and check if it mounted, it will display as /run/mypath in /proc/mounts.
I like the answers that use /proc/mounts, but I don't like doing a simple grep. That can give you false positives. What you really want to know is "do any of the rows have this exact string for field number 2". So, ask that question. (in this case I'm checking /opt)
awk -v status=1 '$2 == "/opt" {status=0} END {exit status}' /proc/mounts
# and you can use it in and if like so:
if awk -v status=1 '$2 == "/opt" {status=0} END {exit status}' /proc/mounts; then
echo "yes"
else
echo "no"
fi