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  • The difficult part it is handling a mount point with space. So I would put such important point also on the title of thew question. Commented Oct 19, 2016 at 15:04
  • Did you try to grep through /proc/mounts ? It should have all informations you need. Commented Oct 19, 2016 at 15:16
  • @Kalavan If the source is something /home/user/fs, but another file/device is mounted at /home/user/fs_mnt, then grep is pretty useless. Commented Oct 19, 2016 at 15:23
  • @Melab That's why you grep for the device name, not the mount name. /etc/mtab (for RH and similar systems) stores the mount information for all currently mounted filesystems. So you grep for the device name in /etc/mtab. See the answer provided by a0f3dd13. Commented Oct 19, 2016 at 15:32
  • @Xalorous Except if /home/user/fs is a device name… Commented Oct 19, 2016 at 16:42