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| <book id="index" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"> |
| <bookinfo> |
| <title>libblkid Reference Manual</title> |
| <releaseinfo>for libblkid version &version;</releaseinfo> |
| <copyright> |
| <year>2009</year> |
| <holder>Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com></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> |
| </partintro> |
| <xi:include href="xml/libblkid-config.xml"/> |
| </part> |
| |
| <part> |
| <title>High-level</title> |
| <xi:include href="xml/evaluate.xml"/> |
| <xi:include href="xml/cache.xml"/> |
| <xi:include href="xml/search.xml"/> |
| </part> |
| <part> |
| <title>Low-level</title> |
| <xi:include href="xml/lowprobe.xml"/> |
| <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"/> |
| </part> |
| <part> |
| <title>Common utils</title> |
| <xi:include href="xml/encode.xml"/> |
| <xi:include href="xml/misc.xml"/> |
| </part> |
| |
| <index id="api-index-full"> |
| <title>API Index</title> |
| <xi:include href="xml/api-index-full.xml"><xi:fallback /></xi:include> |
| </index> |
| </book> |