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FINDFS

Section: System Administration (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 the 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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