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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 originally written by Theodore Ts’o (tytso@mit.edu) and  re-
       written for util-linux-ng package by Karel Zak (kzak@redhat.com).

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/.

SEE ALSO

       blkid(8) fsck(8)