Contents 1 FINDFS 1.1 NAME 1.2 SYNOPSIS 1.3 DESCRIPTION 1.4 AUTHOR 1.5 AVAILABILITY 1.6 SEE ALSO

FINDFS

Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: April 2007
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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 written by Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu).

AVAILABILITY

findfs is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available from http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net.

SEE ALSO

fsck(8)

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