| .\" -*- nroff -*- |
| .\" Copyright 1993, 1994, 1995 by Theodore Ts'o. All Rights Reserved. |
| .\" This file may be copied under the terms of the GNU Public License. |
| .\" |
| .TH FINDFS 8 "February 2009" "Linux" "MAINTENANCE COMMANDS" |
| .SH NAME |
| findfs \- Find a filesystem by label or UUID |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B findfs |
| .BI LABEL= label |
| .sp |
| .B findfs |
| .BI UUID= uuid |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .B findfs |
| will search the disks in the system looking for a filesystem which has |
| a label matching |
| .I label |
| or a UUID equal to |
| .IR uuid . |
| If the filesystem is found, the device name for the filesystem will |
| be printed on stdout. |
| .PP |
| .SH AUTHOR |
| .B findfs |
| was originally written by Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu) and re-written for |
| util-linux-ng package by Karel Zak (kzak@redhat.com). |
| .SH AVAILABILITY |
| The findfs command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from |
| ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/. |
| .SH SEE ALSO |
| .BR blkid (8) |
| .BR fsck (8) |
| |