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| author | Karel Zak | 2011-02-03 12:34:34 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2011-02-03 12:34:34 +0100 |
| commit | c38b4ebb0ee560ecc4958d253c08ede3b07f3c5f (patch) | |
| tree | e53206af0950f7a7d2c687a6df5623da33c00dfa /misc-utils/blkid.8 | |
| parent | blkid: don't return PART_ENTRY_* if partition is empty (diff) | |
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blkid: add note about PART_ENTRY_ tags to blkid.8
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'misc-utils/blkid.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | misc-utils/blkid.8 | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/misc-utils/blkid.8 b/misc-utils/blkid.8 index ac72bf69d..746ed39ee 100644 --- a/misc-utils/blkid.8 +++ b/misc-utils/blkid.8 @@ -160,7 +160,12 @@ print the device name only, this output format is always enabled for \fB-L\fR and \fB-U\fR options .TP .B udev -print key="value" pairs for easy import into the udev environment +print key="value" pairs for easy import into the udev environment. The keys are +prefixed by ID_FS_ or ID_PART_ prefixes. + +The udev output returns ID_FS_AMBIVALENT tag if more superblocks are detected, +and ID_PART_ENTRY_* tags are always returned for all partitions including empty +partitions. .TP .B export print key=value pairs for easy import into the environment. This output format @@ -173,6 +178,9 @@ used together with \fB-i\fR option. .TP .BI \-p Switch to low-level superblock probing mode (bypass cache). + +Note that low-level probing also returns information about partition table type +(PTTYPE tag) and partitions (PART_ENTRY_* tags). .TP .BI \-s " tag" For each (specified) device, show only the tags that match |