Re: API for detecting if a partition/filesystem is mounted?

ben coughed up some electrons that declared:

On 2007-08-21, David Schwartz <davids@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 20, 9:10 pm, ben <bensc...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am writing a program that needs to determine if partitions are
mounted or unmounted. Given a string such as "/dev/sda2" which
functions should I be using or which man page should I be looking at?
The program is in C and the kernel is 2.6.x.


This is much more difficult to do than you might think. For example, /
dev/sda2 might be part of a RAID group that is mounted as '/dev/md0'.
You can certainly parse '/proc/mounts'.

Your right, I will need to account for md devices. Thank you.

Don't forget LVM.

Tim
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