Linux manual pages Section 8  

Name

findfs — Find a filesystem by label or UUID

Synopsis

findfs LABEL= label

findfs UUID= uuid

DESCRIPTION

findfs will search the disks in the system looking for a filesystem which has a label matching label or a UUID equal to uuid. If the filesystem is found, the device name for the filesystem will be printed on stdout.

AUTHOR

findfs was originally written by Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu) and re-written for util-linux package by Karel Zak (kzak@redhat.com).

AVAILABILITY

The findfs command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

SEE ALSO

blkid(8) fsck(8)


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