FINDFS
Section: System Administration (8)
Updated: March 2014
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NAME
findfs - find a filesystem by label or UUID
SYNOPSIS
findfs
NAME=value
DESCRIPTION
findfs
will search the block devices in the system looking for a filesystem or
partition with specified tag. The currently supported tags are:
- LABEL=<label>
-
Specifies filesystem label.
- UUID=<uuid>
-
Specifies filesystem UUID.
- PARTUUID=<uuid>
-
Specifies partition UUID. This partition identifier is supported for example for
GUID Partition Table (GPT) partition tables.
- PARTLABEL=<label>
-
Specifies partition label (name). The partition labels are supported for example for
GUID Partition Table (GPT) or MAC partition tables.
If the filesystem or partition is found, the device name will be printed on
stdout.
The complete overview about filesystems and partitions you can get for example
by
-
lsblk --fs
partx --show <disk>
blkid
EXIT STATUS
-
- 0
-
success
- 1
-
label or uuid cannot be found
- 2
-
usage error, wrong number of arguments or unknown option
ENVIRONMENT
- LIBBLKID_DEBUG=all
-
enables libblkid debug output.
AUTHORS
findfs
was originally written by
Theodore Ts'o
and re-written for the util-linux package by
Karel Zak
SEE ALSO
blkid(8),
lsblk(8),
partx(8)
AVAILABILITY
The findfs command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
Linux Kernel Archive