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<title>libblkid Reference Manual</title>
<releaseinfo>for libblkid version &version;</releaseinfo>
<copyright>
<year>2009</year>
<holder>Karel Zak &lt;kzak@redhat.com&gt;</holder>
</copyright>
</bookinfo>
<part id="gtk">
<title>libblkid Overview</title>
<partintro>
<para>
The libblkid library is used to identify block devices (disks) as to their
content (e.g. filesystem type, partitions) as well as extracting additional
information such as filesystem labels/volume names, partitions, unique
identifiers/serial numbers, etc. A common use is to allow use of LABEL= and
UUID= tags instead of hard-coding specific block device names into
configuration files.
</para>
<para>
The libblkid librray
was written by Andreas Dilger for the ext2 filesystem utilties, with input
from Ted Ts'o. The library was subsequently heavily modified by Ted Ts'o.
</para>
<para>
The low-level probing code, topology and partitions support was written
by Karel Zak. Currently, the library is mainatned by Karel Zak.
</para>
<para>
The library is part of the util-linux-ng package since version 2.15 and is
available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.
</para>
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<part>
<title>High-level</title>
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<xi:include href="xml/cache.xml"/>
<xi:include href="xml/search.xml"/>
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<part>
<title>Low-level</title>
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<xi:include href="xml/lowprobe-tags.xml"/>
<xi:include href="xml/superblocks.xml"/>
<xi:include href="xml/partitions.xml"/>
<xi:include href="xml/topology.xml"/>
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<part>
<title>Common utils</title>
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<xi:include href="xml/misc.xml"/>
</part>
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<title>API Index</title>
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