debian man page for findfs

Query: findfs

OS: debian

Section: 8

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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).
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) util-linux February 2009 FINDFS(8)
Related Man Pages
findfs(8) - mojave
findfs(8) - minix
findfs(8) - posix
findfs(8) - ultrix
findfs(8) - hpux
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