FINDFS(8) | System Administration | FINDFS(8) |
findfs - find a filesystem by label or UUID
findfs NAME=value
findfs will search the block devices in the system looking for a filesystem or partition with specified tag. The currently supported tags are:
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
findfs was originally written by Theodore Ts'o and re-written for the util-linux package by Karel Zak.
The findfs command is part of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive.
March 2014 | util-linux |