mounted multiple times

[David J. Vernon]

Trevor TeC Christian wrote:
> On Wed, November 30, 2005 12:55 pm, Jack Tanner said:
> 
>>On an FC4 client, I'm mounting an smbfs filesystem over the network. In
>>/etc/fstab, I have
>>
>>//server/share /mount/point smbfs
>>credentials=/home/user/.smbcreds,noauto,user  0 0
>>
>>The user's .bash_profile contains the actual mount command, which goes off
>>without a hitch. Consequently, the user can issue
>>
>>$ umount /mount/point
>>
>>when necessary.
>>
>>It's all well and good, until the user connects to the FC4 client twice,
>>and
>>runs two xterms which both source .bash_profile.
>>
>>Now the mount command has been issued twice, so here's what happens:
>>
> 
> 
> Should script such that the share isn't mounted unless it isn't already
> mounted.
> 

something like -

#!/bin/bash
MOUNT='/bin/mount'
MOUNTPOINT='/mount/point'
if [ "`$MOUNT | grep "$MOUNTPOINT"`" = "" ]
then
	mount /mount/point
fi