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<H1>FINDFS</H1>
Section: System Administration (8)<BR>Updated: March 2014<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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<H2>NAME</H2>
findfs - find a filesystem by label or UUID
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
<B>findfs</B>
<B>NAME=</B><I>value</I>
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
<B>findfs</B>
will search the block devices in the system looking for a filesystem or
partition with specified tag. The currently supported tags are:
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<DT id="1"><B>LABEL=&lt;label&gt;</B>
<DD>
Specifies filesystem label.
<DT id="2"><B>UUID=&lt;uuid&gt;</B>
<DD>
Specifies filesystem UUID.
<DT id="3"><B>PARTUUID=&lt;uuid&gt;</B>
<DD>
Specifies partition UUID. This partition identifier is supported for example for
GUID Partition Table (GPT) partition tables.
<DT id="4"><B>PARTLABEL=&lt;label&gt;</B>
<DD>
Specifies partition label (name). The partition labels are supported for example for
GUID Partition Table (GPT) or MAC partition tables.
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If the filesystem or partition is found, the device name will be printed on
stdout.
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The complete overview about filesystems and partitions you can get for example
by
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<BR>
<B>lsblk --fs</B>
<BR>
<P>
<B>partx --show &lt;disk&gt;</B>
<BR>
<P>
<B>blkid</B>
<BR>
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<H2>EXIT STATUS</H2>
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<DT id="7"><B>0</B>
<DD>
success
<DT id="8"><B>1</B>
<DD>
label or uuid cannot be found
<DT id="9"><B>2</B>
<DD>
usage error, wrong number of arguments or unknown option
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<H2>AUTHOR</H2>
<B>findfs</B>
was originally written by
Theodore Ts'o
and re-written for the util-linux package by
Karel Zak
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<H2>ENVIRONMENT</H2>
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<DT id="10">LIBBLKID_DEBUG=all<DD>
enables libblkid debug output.
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+blkid">blkid</A></B>(8),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+lsblk">lsblk</A></B>(8),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+partx">partx</A></B>(8)
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<H2>AVAILABILITY</H2>
The findfs command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
Linux Kernel Archive
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<DT id="11"><A HREF="#lbAB">NAME</A><DD>
<DT id="12"><A HREF="#lbAC">SYNOPSIS</A><DD>
<DT id="13"><A HREF="#lbAD">DESCRIPTION</A><DD>
<DT id="14"><A HREF="#lbAE">EXIT STATUS</A><DD>
<DT id="15"><A HREF="#lbAF">AUTHOR</A><DD>
<DT id="16"><A HREF="#lbAG">ENVIRONMENT</A><DD>
<DT id="17"><A HREF="#lbAH">SEE ALSO</A><DD>
<DT id="18"><A HREF="#lbAI">AVAILABILITY</A><DD>
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