README: guard the daily cron scan against an unmounted disk (closes #175)
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A disk that is not mounted leaves its mount point an empty directory.
scan then deletes every record under it, and the next scan reads every
file again. The README now says so. Its cron line runs scan only when
mountpoint finds the disks mounted, and one sentence says which mount
points to test.

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@@ -114,15 +114,20 @@ docker run --rm -v /srv:/srv:ro -v /var/lib/sfdupes:/var/lib/sfdupes \
Run `scan` as root, so that it can read every file. `scan` warns about a
directory it cannot read, and about a new or changed file it cannot read. It
skips the path and deletes the records at or below it (see "Rules for the
walk"). As the file `/etc/cron.d/sfdupes`:
walk").
An unmounted disk leaves its mount point empty, so `scan` deletes every record
under it, and the next scan reads every file on the disk again. Test the mount
point of each disk at or below `/srv` with its own `mountpoint -q`, joined with
`&&`, and test `/srv` only when it is one. As the file `/etc/cron.d/sfdupes`:
```
30 3 * * * root /usr/local/bin/sfdupes scan /srv 2>>/var/log/sfdupes.log || tail -n 3 /var/log/sfdupes.log
30 3 * * * root if mountpoint -q /srv; then /usr/local/bin/sfdupes scan /srv 2>>/var/log/sfdupes.log || tail -n 3 /var/log/sfdupes.log; else echo "a disk is not mounted; scan of /srv skipped"; fi
```
- The first scan creates `/var/lib/sfdupes/db.sqlite` and its directory. To keep
the database elsewhere, put `SFDUPES_DATABASE=/path/to/db.sqlite` before the
command on the same line.
the database elsewhere, put `SFDUPES_DATABASE=/path/to/db.sqlite` directly
before `/usr/local/bin/sfdupes`.
- `scan` writes nothing to stdout. Its stderr, appended here to
`/var/log/sfdupes.log`, holds:
- one line naming the database;