FINDFS(8) System Administration FINDFS(8)
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).
ENVIRONMENT
LIBBLKID_DEBUG=0xffff
enables debug output.
SEE ALSO
blkid(8), fsck(8)
AVAILABILITY
The findfs command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
util-linux February 2009 FINDFS(8)
