Monitor mount points

[Devon Harding]

Works like a champ!

Thanks!

On 1/24/06, Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 16:28 -0500, Devon Harding wrote:
> > Is there a way I could monitor mount points & automatically remount
> > them (mount -a) if its ever disconnected?
>
> Uhm, yeah.  I do it.  Cheap and dirty way:
>
> --------------------- CUT HERE ---------------------------------------
> #!/bin/bash
> MNTLIST="/mountpoint1 /mountpoint2 ..." # Build list of dirs to check
> for MNT in $MNTLIST; do                 # For each directory...
>     RES=`mount | grep $MNT`             # Perform the check
>     if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then               # Did we get a failure?
>         mount $MNT                      # Yes, remount the volume
>     fi
> done
> --------------------- CUT HERE ---------------------------------------
>
> Save that as a shell script, say "/usr/local/bin/chkmnt.sh", chown it
> as root:root and chmod it to 755.  Finally, add an entry to root's
> crontab:
>
>         * * * * * /usr/local/bin/chkmnt.sh >/dev/null 2>&1
>
> which will run it once a minute.  You could add things such as touching
> a file on each directory to verify the thing is writable and such.  It's
> up to you.
>
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