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FINDFS

Section: System Administration (8)
Updated: 202-0-04
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NAME

findfs - find a filesystem by label or UUID

SYNOPSIS

findfs TAGNAME=value

DESCRIPTION

findfs will search the block devices in the system for a filesystem or partition with the specified tag. The currently supported tags are:

LABEL=label

: Specifies a filesystem label.

UUID=uuid

: Specifies a filesystem UUID.

PARTUUID=uuid

: Specifies a partition UUID. Partition identifiers are supported for example for GUID Partition Table (GPT) partition tables.

PARTLABEL=label

: Specifies a partition label (name). Partition labels are supported for example for GPT and MAC partition tables.

If the filesystem or partition is found, the device name will be printed on stdout. If the input is not in the format of TAGNAME=value, then the input will be copied to the output without any modification.

You can get a complete overview about the filesystems and partitions in the system with one of the following commands:

lsblk --fs

partx --show disk

blkid

OPTIONS

-h, --help

: Display help text and exit.

-V, --version

: Display version and exit.

EXIT STATUS

: success

: label or UUID cannot be found

: usage error, wrong number of arguments or unknown option

ENVIRONMENT

LIBBLKID_DEBUG=all

: enables libblkid debug output.

AUTHORS

findfs was originally written by and re-written for the util-linux package by

REPORTING BUGS

For bug reports, use the https://github.com/uti-linux/uti-linux/issues <L>issue tracker

AVAILABILITY

The findfs command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/uti-linux/ <L>Linux Kernel Archive