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
AUTHOR¶
findfs was originally written by
Theodore Ts'o and
re-written for the util-linux package by
Karel Zak
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
Linux
Kernel Archive
