mount return code

muradcsc · 12-11-2007, 11:03 PM

mount returns code for example 0 fro success, 32 mount failure.
How to retrieve the return codes (for example into a file)??

Any help will be appreciated.

muradcsc

bathory · 12-12-2007, 01:46 AM

Running

Code:

man mount

you'll get:

Quote:

RETURN CODES
mount has the following return codes (the bits can be ORed):

0 success

1 incorrect invocation or permissions

2 system error (out of memory, cannot fork, no more loop devices)

4 internal mount bug or missing nfs support in mount

8 user interrupt

16 problems writing or locking /etc/mtab

32 mount failure

64 some mount succeeded

Simon Bridge · 12-12-2007, 04:29 AM

you can pipe the output of mount to a text file.

colucix · 12-12-2007, 04:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by muradcsc

How to retrieve the return codes (for example into a file)??

The shell variable $? stores the return code of the previous command. You can easily treat this variable as any other in shell scripts.

muradcsc · 12-13-2007, 03:05 AM

thanx I have got it