How to check whether a partition is mounted by UUID?

Question

If I have the UUID of a drive partition, how would I go about finding out whether it is mounted or not, using the command line?

Answer 1

lsblk might help. It can print just the UUID and mount point, so, given the UUID, just see if the mount point is not empty:

uuid=foo
lsblk -o UUID,MOUNTPOINT | awk -v u="$uuid" '$1 == u {print $2}'

So:

uuid=foo
mountpoint=$(lsblk -o UUID,MOUNTPOINT | awk -v u="$uuid" '$1 == u {print $2}')
if [[ -n $mountpoint ]]
then
    echo mounted
else
    echo not mounted
fi

Since lsblk can act on specific devices, you can also do:

mountpoint=$(lsblk -o MOUNTPOINT "/dev/disk/by-uuid/$uuid" | awk 'NR==2')

With the first method, there won't be an error if that UUID isn't from a currently connected disk. With the second method, lsblk error out if /dev/disk/by-uuid/$uuid doesn't exist.

Answer 2

lsblk -o UUID,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT

If you only want one line with your UUID and mountpoint ($UUID represents your UUID):

lsblk -o UUID,MOUNTPOINT|grep "$UUID"

The mount point will be empty if it is unmounted. Try lsblk -h for more options.

Use awk to print the result. if NF (Number of fields) is more than one it means that it has a mount point:

lsblk -o UUID,MOUNTPOINT|grep "$UUID"|awk '{if (NF>1) print $1" is mounted"; else print $1" is unmounted";}'

Answer 3

If you want the details as from mount

for uuid in /dev/disk/by-uuid/*; do if [[ "$uuid" =~ .*your-UUID-here.* ]]; then echo $(mount | grep "$(readlink -e "$uuid")") ; fi; done

replace your-UUID-here with your UUID

more readably:

 for uuid in /dev/disk/by-uuid/*; do 
   if [[ "$uuid" =~ .*your-UUID-here.* ]]
     then echo $(mount | grep "$(readlink -e "$uuid")")
   fi
 done

output example:

/dev/mmcblk1p2 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered)

You can just make it check that the string is not null and echo "mounted":

for uuid in /dev/disk/by-uuid/*; do if [[ "$uuid" =~ .*your-UUID-here.* ]]; then if [[ $(mount | grep "$(readlink -e "$uuid")") ]]; then echo "mounted"; fi; fi; done

but others gave better ways to do that :)

Answer 4

Ubuntu uses UDisks2 daemon, which polls whole lot of information about file systems, and we can use udisksctl and filter its output to find a quick and dirty way to find the info we need:

udisksctl dump | python -c 'import sys;lines = [l.strip() for l in sys.stdin if " UUID" in l or " MountPoints:" in l];print "\n".join(lines)'

What you see above, basically will print UUIDs of filesystems and their mountpoints. By visual inspection you now can figure out, which UUID is mounted, and which is not.

$ udisksctl dump | python -c 'import sys;lines = [l.strip() for l in sys.stdin                                           
> if " UUID" in l or " MountPoints:" in l];print "\n".join(lines)'
MountPoints:        /
UUID:               000b5321-01
MountPoints:
UUID:               bbf23a81-808e-11e4-a445-201a06d7b0e9
MountPoints:
UUID:               bbf23a87-808e-11e4-a445-201a06d7b0e9
MountPoints:
UUID:               bbf23a89-808e-11e4-a445-201a06d7b0e9
MountPoints:
UUID:               bbf23a8f-808e-11e4-a445-201a06d7b0e9
MountPoints:
UUID:               02fe8de2-a408-11e4-8eeb-f0761c8c6df7
MountPoints:        /mnt/HDD
UUID:               53827413-0b7e-4ae6-ae09-1daea529d6a1

Answer 5

My solution

• uses only a shell and procfs, so no weird command output formatting issues,
• doesn't (re-)scan device UUIDs but uses the kernel cache,
• therefore doesn't require super-user privileges,
• doesn't rely on canonicalised path names but uses (device) file identity.

my_uuid=...
while IFS=' ' read -r dev mnt remainder; do
  case "$dev" in
  /dev/*)
    if [ "$dev" -ef "/dev/disk/by-uuid/$my_uuid" ]; then
      echo "$my_uuid ($dev) mounted at $mnt"
      break
    fi;;
  esac
done < /proc/mounts

Answer 6

Building on the excellent answers I received for this question, I realised that it's much easier to work with device names. To get the device name from UUID:

disk_uuid=foo
disk_devname=$(blkid -U "$disk_uuid")

Which means I can quickly deduce if it's mounted by grepping the output of df:

df | grep -q "$disk_devname" && echo "Disk mounted" || echo "Disk not mounted"

Or by using the code in Muru's answer, which has the added bonus of telling me where the drive is mounted:

mountpoint=$(lsblk -no MOUNTPOINT "$disk_devname")
if [[ -n  "$mountpoint" ]]; then
   echo "Disk is mounted at $mountpoint"
else
   echo "Disk not mounted"
fi

Answer 7

You can use the df command to see the mounted file systems and their mount point. Here is an example from my machine ... the partition sdb3, on which I have another system installed, is not mounted, so not listed (partitions are re-labeled, that's why names are shown instead of UUIDs) :

df
Filesystem                   1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev                           8100756        0   8100756   0% /dev
tmpfs                          1625296     9952   1615344   1% /run
/dev/sdb4                     41022688  7074348  31834804  19% /
tmpfs                          8126464    19456   8107008   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                             5120        4      5116   1% /run/lock
tmpfs                          8126464        0   8126464   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/loop0                       76800    76800         0 100% /snap/ubuntu-core/423
/dev/sdb1                      4186108    12160   4173948   1% /boot/efi
zsc-lxd/containers/uc-1604-1  58620160   516736  58103424   1% /var/lib/lxd/containers/uc-1604-1.zfs
zsc-lxd/containers/uc-1610-1  58637184   533760  58103424   1% /var/lib/lxd/containers/uc-1610-1.zfs
tmpfs                          1625292      124   1625168   1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sdb5                     61796348 10766892  47867344  19% /media/cl/virtual
/dev/sda4                    206293688 13419740 182371804   7% /media/cl/system
/dev/sda3                    206293688 32116600 163674944  17% /media/cl/rescue
/dev/sda2                    206293688  1867604 193923940   1% /media/cl/media
/dev/sda1                    206293688  2539712 193251832   2% /media/cl/data  

Answer 8

You can use

findmnt --source UUID=uuid

If the output is empty, no partition with this uuid is mounted, otherwise devicename, mountpoint, filesystem and mount options will be displayed.

Of course, you'll have to replace uuid with the actual UUID you want to test.

Answer 9

If there is a link named "the_UUID" in /dev/disk/by-uuid/ the partition is mounted. On my Ubuntu 14.04.5 (YMMV):

$ ll /dev/disk/by-uuid
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Nov 14 04:30 0123-4567 -> ../../sde
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 11 00:25 06ee65d5-26f7-41f3-91ab-3497021a6213 -> ../../dm-0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 11 00:25 12817b99-9d2b-4357-a4ca-c11eab672a20 -> ../../sdb6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 11 00:25 362254e8-2b99-442d-8ad9-4a348bc08032 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 11 00:25 83a64b80-5a37-4659-b797-221b88ef41f8 -> ../../sdb5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 11 00:25 ff359af0-d996-4949-b27e-f24ce453c48c -> ../../sdc1