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Subject: find device of a known mountpoint
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Hi,

I wonder whether we have a command which tells me the device 
corresponding to a known mount point. I want to avoid grepping the 
output of mount because it may not unique (regarding mounts on shared 
bind mounts) and because the original mount point may include symlinks 
which are canonicalized by the kernel.

Example:

$ truncate -s100M /tmp/img
$ losetup /dev/loop0  /tmp/img
$ mkfs.ext2  /dev/loop0

$ mkdir /tmp/mnt
$ ln -s /tmp  /tmp/xyz/symlink

$ mount /dev/loop0 /tmp/xyz/symlink/mnt
$ mount | grep loop
/dev/loop0 on /tmp/mnt type ext2 ...


I need a command which outputs "/dev/loop0" when "/tmp/xyz/symlink/mnt" 
is given.

So far I found df as the only solution (but ugly and maybe GNU-only). 
And it would succeed for any input file, not only mountpoints.

$ df -P /tmp/xyz/symlink/mnt | awk 'NR==2{print $1}'
/dev/loop0

Our mountpoint(1) looks like the right tool but prints the device 
numbers only

$ mountpoint  -d /tmp/xyz/symlink/mnt
7:0

So how could I do this in a non-ugly way?

cu,
Rudi