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The partition may still work if it ends up larger in the partition table than it was before. This new space will not be available inside it without reformatting but that won't stop it from working for some kinds of partitions. Smaller, of course, would be a big problem...
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findfs
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 Table (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
EXIT STATUS
0 success
1 label or uuid cannot be found
2 usage error, wrong number of arguments or unknown option
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>.
ENVIRONMENT
LIBBLKID_DEBUG=all
enables libblkid 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 Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils
/util-linux/>.
util-linux March 2014 FINDFS(8)