FINDFS

Section: MAINTENANCE COMMANDS (8)
Updated: February 2009
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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-ng package by Karel Zak (kzak@redhat.com).

AVAILABILITY

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

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