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Re: [Networker] How to query for whether a volume is mounted?

2008-05-06 14:05:15
Subject: Re: [Networker] How to query for whether a volume is mounted?
From: MIchael Leone <Michael.Leone AT PHA.PHILA DOT GOV>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 14:02:27 -0400
"Michael Nored" <mrnored AT netzero DOT net> wrote on 05/06/2008 01:50:59 PM:

> Michael,
> That interesting, I get the following response:
> 
> nsradmin> print type:NSR device
>                         name: "G:\\AFTD1_Clone\\_AF_readonly";
>                      message: unmounted AFTDClone.001.RO;
> 
>                         name: "G:\\AFTD1_Clone";
>                      message: unmounted AFTDClone.001;
> 
>                         name: "G:\\AFTD1\\_AF_readonly";
>                      message: \mounted adv_file disk AFTD.001.RO (write
> protected);
> 
>                         name: "G:\\AFTD1";
>                      message: mounted adv_file disk AFTD.001;

Strange, indeed. I'm on 7.4.2, on Win2003/. Perhaps that makes a 
difference?


> 
> Michael Nored
> Consultant
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> 
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [Networker] How to query for whether a volume is mounted?
> 
> "Michael Nored" <mrnored AT netzero DOT net> wrote on 05/06/2008 12:18:43 PM:
> 
> > Michael,
> > Use nsradmin to check the device:
> > 
> > nsradmin
> > Show name;message
> > print type:NSR device
> > 
> > Michael Nored
> > Consultant
> > Nored Consulting, LLC
> > 
> > M: (407) 399-8162
> > T:  (352) 350-7142
> > E: mnored AT Netzero DOT net
> 
> Thanks. But I'd need to do this in a script, and parse the output, so 
the 
> script can make decisions. And this way doesn't always seem to include 
the 
> word "unmounted", apparently ..
> 
> 
> 
> Unmounterd volumes (i.e., node that isn't hosting the virtual server, 
and 
> is not mounted):
> 
> 
>                         name: \
> "rd=admndbs002.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov:X:\\DBO\\_AF_readonly";
>                      message: read only;
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> same situation (node that isn't hosting, and is not mounted; note 
> different response)
> 
> 
> 
> "rd=admnsan001.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov:X:\\DBO\\_AF_readonly";
>                      message: " ";
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Anyone know of a more consistent method of querying? There's no way to 
> return "mounted status"? I see the same message of "read only" for both 
> mounted and unmounted volumes.
> 
> 
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