From 9c7c5ee1dc1e0269d8b13a59aa15abfdb47c044f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: sneak Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 03:54:15 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] README: guard the daily cron scan against an unmounted disk (closes #175) 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. Model: opus-5-5 --- README.md | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 0a36a64..3c9345d 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -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;