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| author | Karel Zak | 2010-03-23 14:06:54 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2010-03-23 14:06:54 +0100 |
| commit | 4f946f530c3f9991c6fd71739696dd2bcc1a4a1f (patch) | |
| tree | 690cb53e9e332e0755424ac184abb3a0412fd3fc /misc-utils/blkid.8 | |
| parent | blkid: cleanup -u <list> parsing (diff) | |
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blkid: add -n <list> option
This option allows to restrict low-level probing to the defined list
of superbocks (filesystems or RAIDs). For example:
blkid -p -n ext3,ext4,vfat /dev/sda1
or
blkid -p -n novfat /dev/sda1
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'misc-utils/blkid.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | misc-utils/blkid.8 | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/misc-utils/blkid.8 b/misc-utils/blkid.8 index 9419da0f8..ea78d246b 100644 --- a/misc-utils/blkid.8 +++ b/misc-utils/blkid.8 @@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ blkid \- command\-line utility to locate/print block device attributes .RB [ \-s .IR tag ] .in +9 +.RB [ \-n +.IR list ] .RB [ \-u .IR list ] .I device @@ -104,6 +106,21 @@ from e2fsprogs use the \fB-L\fR option as a synonym to the \fB-o list\fR option. For better portability use "-l -o device -t LABEL=<label>" and "-o list" in your scripts rather than -L option. .TP +.B \-n " list " +Restrict probing functions to defined (comma separated) list of superblock types (names). +The list can be prefixed with "no" to specify the types which should be ignored. +For example: +.sp + blkid -p -n vfat,ext3,ext4 /dev/sda1 +.sp +probes for vfat, ext3 and ext4 filesystems, and +.sp + blkid -p -u nominix /dev/sda1 +.sp +probes for all supported formats exclude minix filesystem. This option is +useful with +\fB-p\fR only. +.TP .B \-u " list " Restrict probing functions to defined (comma separated) list of "usage" types. Supported usage types are: filesystem, raid, crypto and other. The list can be |