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| author | Karel Zak | 2009-05-16 02:25:37 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2009-05-22 10:06:15 +0200 |
| commit | 0eb0aff95e6696b6e56f449ac0609b422083a192 (patch) | |
| tree | a98a7a1b7769333407bcfd3d7e7302a6cb781419 /shlibs/blkid/libblkid.3 | |
| parent | libuuid: add info about u-l-ng to man pages (diff) | |
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libblkid: update man page
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'shlibs/blkid/libblkid.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | shlibs/blkid/libblkid.3 | 35 |
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/shlibs/blkid/libblkid.3 b/shlibs/blkid/libblkid.3 index 89747ecf1..46eb868bc 100644 --- a/shlibs/blkid/libblkid.3 +++ b/shlibs/blkid/libblkid.3 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .\" This file may be copied under the terms of the GNU Public License. .\" .\" Created Wed Sep 14 12:02:12 2001, Andreas Dilger -.TH LIBBLKID 3 "February 2009" "Linux" "MAINTENANCE COMMANDS"" +.TH LIBBLKID 3 "May 2009" "util-linux-ng" .SH NAME libblkid \- block device identification library .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -45,14 +45,43 @@ some way to locate these devices without enumerating only visible devices, so the use of the cache file is .B required in this situation. +.SH CONFIGURATION FILE +The standard location of the +.I /etc/blkid.conf +config file can be overridden by the environment variable BLKID_CONF. +The following options control the libblkid library: +.TP +.I SEND_UEVENT=<yes|not> +Sends uevent when +.I /dev/disk/by-{label,uuid}/ +symlink does not match with LABEL or UUID on the device. Default is "yes". +.TP +.I CACHE_FILE=<path> +Overrides the standard location of the cache file. This setting can be +overridden by the environment variable BLKID_FILE. Default is +.I /etc/blkid.tab. +.TP +.I EVALUATE=<methods> +Defines LABEL and UUID evaluation method(s). Currently, the libblkid library +supports "udev" and "scan" methods. More than one methods may be specified in +a comma separated list. Default is "udev,scan". The "udev" method uses udev +.I /dev/disk/by-* +symlinks and the "scan" method scans all block devices from the +.I /proc/partitions +file. .SH AUTHOR .B libblkid was written by Andreas Dilger for the ext2 filesystem utilties, with input from Ted Ts'o. The library was subsequently heavily modified by Ted Ts'o. + +The low-level probing code was rewritten by Karel Zak. .SH FILES -.TP +.TP 18 .I /etc/blkid.tab -Caches data extracted from each recognized block device. +caches data extracted from each recognized block device +.TP +.I /etc/blkid.conf +configuration file .SH AVAILABILITY .B libblkid is part of the util-linux-ng package since version 2.15 and is available from |