Question

I want to write a sh/bash script that can determine whether a particular directory is a mount point for an NFS filesystem.

eg something like

$ mkdir localdir $ mkdir remotedir $ mount host:/share ./remotedir $ classify_dirs.sh  -->  localdir is local  -->  remotedir is an NFS mount point 

Answer 1

This question is effectively a dup of how-can-i-tell-if-a-file-is-on-a-remote-filesystem-with-perl

The short answer is to use the stat command

eg

$ stat -f -L -c %T localdir ext2/ext3 $ stat -f -L -c %T remotedir nfs 

Then a directory is an NFS mount point if its type is ‘nfs’ and its parent directory isn’t.