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/.

SEE ALSO¶

blkid(8) fsck(8)