From 55001ae9ec2c00a070f8dfa8541f4f17a6e2a284 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 22:36:42 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] lvmdump: Allow dir to exist already if it is empty

---
 WHATS_NEW          | 1 +
 scripts/lvmdump.sh | 8 ++++++--
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/WHATS_NEW b/WHATS_NEW
index 98168a16d..b1da1b0db 100644
--- a/WHATS_NEW
+++ b/WHATS_NEW
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 Version 2.02.150 -
 =================================
+  Allow the lvmdump directory to exist already provided it is empty.
 
 Version 2.02.149 - 1st April 2016
 =================================
diff --git a/scripts/lvmdump.sh b/scripts/lvmdump.sh
index 1e91a9d00..19b36d37e 100755
--- a/scripts/lvmdump.sh
+++ b/scripts/lvmdump.sh
@@ -99,8 +99,12 @@ else
 	dir="$HOME/$dirbase"
 fi
 
-test -e $dir && die 3 "Fatal: $dir already exists"
-$MKDIR -p $dir || die 4 "Fatal: could not create $dir"
+if test -d $dir ; then
+	(shopt -s nullglob dotglob; cd $dir && files=(*) && ((${#files[@]}))) && die 5 "Fatal: directory $dir already exists and is not empty"
+else
+	test -e $dir && die 3 "Fatal: $dir already exists"
+	$MKDIR -p $dir || die 4 "Fatal: could not create $dir"
+fi
 
 log="$dir/lvmdump.log"