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I have an NFS share which is shared across about two other machines. I recently realized that one of the servers isn't sharing the directory and is keeping files all for itself. Is there a way to see if the NFS share is mounted in the directory I think it is in?

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I do not understand, are you looking for the mount command? – andcoz Sep 12 '11 at 1:16
Yep, that's it. – TK Kocheran Sep 12 '11 at 3:57
@andcoz: make it an answer :-) – Stéphane Gimenez Sep 12 '11 at 20:33
mount -l works ;) – TK Kocheran Sep 12 '11 at 21:16

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Maybe you are looking for

df .

When you are in the directory you want to know the mountpoint of?

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+1 if you add mount -l to your answer ;) – TK Kocheran Sep 12 '11 at 21:17
@TK Kocheran The mount command is another way to find out, but then you probably should do "mount -l | grep XXX" so you filter the output a little, and still you may have ambiguous output (if you have dirs with similar names). The df command will tell you where the current dir is mounted and what type so there is not ambiguity in this method. But the result should be the same... – Johan Sep 13 '11 at 8:13
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Straphka idea to use df will work well if you add some flags like the -T that shows filesystem type, (and maybe the -P for posix compability). And to top it off we can use awk to filter the output so we only print the type output column.

df -PTh . | awk '{print $2}'

or if you like to check up on a dir called smb/media/ in your homedir.

df -PTh ~/smb/media/ | awk '{print $2}'
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