findfs

find a filesystem by label or UUID

Synopsis

findfs LABEL=label

findfs UUID=uuid

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examples

source

            
  devName=$(getParam media)


  dev=`findfs LABEL=${devName}`


  e2fsck -f $dev


  /mount_data


  /start

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.

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 fsck

author

findfs was originally written by Theodore Ts’o (tytso[:at:]mit[:dot:]edu) and re-written for the util-linux package by Karel Zak (kzak[:at:]redhat[:dot:]com).