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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 sup-
ported for example for GUID Partition Table (GPT) or MAC parti-
tion 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
AUTHOR
findfs was originally written by Theodore Ts'o (tytso AT mit.edu) and re-
written for the util-linux package by Karel Zak (kzak AT redhat.com).
ENVIRONMENT
LIBBLKID_DEBUG=0xffff
enables debug output.
SEE ALSO
blkid(8), lsblk(8), partx(8)
AVAILABILITY
The findfs command is part of the util-linux package and is available
from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
util-linux February 2009 FINDFS(8)