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FINDFS(8)                                       System Administration                                       FINDFS(8)



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 Ta‐
              ble (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



AUTHOR
       findfs was originally written by Theodore Ts'o ([email protected]) and re-written for the  util-linux  package  by
       Karel Zak ([email protected]).

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.ker‐
       nel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.



util-linux                                          February 2009                                           FINDFS(8)