vol_id

Langue: en

Version: March 2006 (debian - 06/08/07)

Section: 8 (Commandes administrateur)

NAME

vol_id - probe filesystem type and read label and uuid

SYNOPSIS

vol_id [--export] [-t] [-l] [-u] [device]

DESCRIPTION

vol_id

is usually called from a udev rule, to provide udev with the filesystem type, the label and the uuid of a volume. vol_id supports all common filesystem formats and detects various raid setups to prevent the recognition of raid members as a volume with a filesystem.

OPTIONS

--export

print all values in key/value format to import them into the environment.

-t

print the filesystem type

-l

print the safe version of volume label suitable for use as filename. Use -L to print literal label

-u

print the uuid of a volume

-L

print raw volume label

ENVIRONMENT

UDEV_LOG

Set the syslog priority.

EXIT STATUS

vol_id will only return successful if the value asked for is not empty. All trailing whitespace will be removed, spaces replaced by underscore and slashes ignored.

AUTHOR

Written by Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>

SEE ALSO

udev(7)