Is there a command that will list all partitions along with their labels? sudo fdisk -l and sudo parted -l don't show labels by default.
EDIT: (as per comment below) I'm talking about ext2 labels - those that you can set in gparted upon partitioning.
EDIT2: The intent is to list unmounted partitions (so I know which one to mount).
lsblkFor instance, the command
lsblk -o name,mountpoint,label,size,uuid
outputs:
NAME MOUNTPOINT LABEL SIZE UUID
sda 1.4T
├─sda1 /boot boot 953M f557b9f0-edb5-42bb-94d8-27bc03c3c2c7
├─sda2 46.6G 727fa348-8804-4773-ae3d-f3e176d12dac
│ └─sda2_crypt (dm-0) 46.6G P1kvJI-5iqv-s9gJ-8V2H-2EEO-q4aK-sx4aDi
│ ├─debian_crypt-swap (dm-1) [SWAP] 2G 3f9f24d7-86d1-4e21-93e9-f3c181d05cf0
│ ├─debian_crypt-tmp (dm-2) /tmp tmp 5G 93fc8219-f985-45fb-bd5c-2c7940a7512d
│ ├─debian_crypt-home (dm-3) /home home 6G 12e8566c-8f0f-45ec-8524-6d9d9ee91eae
│ └─debian_crypt-root (dm-4) / root 33.6G 9685570b-4c9e-43ea-815e-49d10dc7a1bf
├─sda3 651.9G d3e0436c-85f6-45c6-9d8f-28b79ee06102
│ └─crypt_gusto (dm-8) /media/Gusto Gusto 651.9G 0c084508-cb8b-4b61-832d-6b85273f33c4
├─sda4 1K
├─sda5 298G 5063da5f-9b68-43de-914c-32b89622bcc8
│ └─crypt_kabi (dm-7) /media/Kabi Kabi 298G e6a0b66c-8fe9-4e7b-9d54-7b2b430e109d
├─sda6 213.6G 5129d860-bb41-4393-b4b1-f8af53d9155d
│ └─crypt_zami (dm-6) /media/Zami Zami 213.6G 19101155-6070-4f37-b39d-19f28867c66b
├─sda7 /media/Server Server 85.6G a9f4dae5-901c-4f49-bb30-592de3000713
└─sda8 100.6G dc7f4586-a33d-4707-98e9-8b55c559b0d2
└─crypt_grafi (dm-5) /media/Grafi Grafi 100.6G 5e3242e1-ec7a-4806-92f7-88a126feea94
sdb 14.5G
├─sdb1 DEBIAN_LIVE 3G 6bf4d915-2b62-444e-a2c8-16307769b5c2
├─sdb2 2G 90ec6f73-8fdb-4c8d-aebd-cadd0f51b412
│ └─crypt_sdb2 (dm-10) /mnt data 2G 91e779dd-0a3f-40b2-8ad0-257d860541a6
└─sdb3 linux 9.5G 14a783a4-96dd-4a85-8de7-6e8eea230594
loop0 1000M a3be80bf-0f2c-44ed-8de5-d60e3b19c01a
└─crypt_dropbox (dm-9) /media/Dropbox Dropbox 998M 8461e2cf-ae17-449b-8ee5-29cc88688b8b
zram0 [SWAP] 250M f8254ae5-5ae6-4fda-b8ef-83f25c405894
zram1 [SWAP] 250M 7e7ed90d-731c-422a-bf9b-828f09b80502
You can specify plenty of columns in whatever order you like:
Available output columns:
NAME device name
KNAME internal kernel device name
PATH path to the device node
MAJ:MIN major:minor device number
FSAVAIL filesystem size available
FSSIZE filesystem size
FSTYPE filesystem type
FSUSED filesystem size used
FSUSE% filesystem use percentage
FSROOTS mounted filesystem roots
FSVER filesystem version
MOUNTPOINT where the device is mounted
MOUNTPOINTS all locations where device is mounted
LABEL filesystem LABEL
UUID filesystem UUID
PTUUID partition table identifier (usually UUID)
PTTYPE partition table type
PARTTYPE partition type code or UUID
PARTTYPENAME partition type name
PARTLABEL partition LABEL
PARTUUID partition UUID
PARTFLAGS partition flags
RA read-ahead of the device
RO read-only device
RM removable device
HOTPLUG removable or hotplug device (usb, pcmcia, ...)
MODEL device identifier
SERIAL disk serial number
SIZE size of the device
STATE state of the device
OWNER user name
GROUP group name
MODE device node permissions
ALIGNMENT alignment offset
MIN-IO minimum I/O size
OPT-IO optimal I/O size
PHY-SEC physical sector size
LOG-SEC logical sector size
ROTA rotational device
SCHED I/O scheduler name
RQ-SIZE request queue size
TYPE device type
DISC-ALN discard alignment offset
DISC-GRAN discard granularity
DISC-MAX discard max bytes
DISC-ZERO discard zeroes data
WSAME write same max bytes
WWN unique storage identifier
RAND adds randomness
PKNAME internal parent kernel device name
HCTL Host:Channel:Target:Lun for SCSI
TRAN device transport type
SUBSYSTEMS de-duplicated chain of subsystems
REV device revision
VENDOR device vendor
ZONED zone model
DAX dax-capable device
lsblk -f which is equivalent to lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,LABEL,MOUNTPOINT
With udev, You can use
ls -l /dev/disk/by-label
to show the symlinks by label to at least some partition device nodes.
Not sure what the logic of inclusion is, possibly the existence of a label.
mount -l suggestion.
ls -la /dev/disk/by-label seems to show labels of unmounted partitions; so that solves my problem, I guess... Although, I really would have preferred an option for fdisk or parted instead :) Cheers!
sudo lsblk -o name,mountpoint,label,size,uuid worked for me.
/dev/disk/by-label is unpopulated when the initramfs mounts root fs.
/dev/disk/by-label OTOH: there's /dev/disk/by-partlabel
There is a blkid command which may be what you are looking for. Results are similar to the following:
$ sudo blkid /dev/mapper/vg_rootdisk-lv_var
/dev/mapper/vg_rootdisk-lv_var: LABEL="LV_VAR" UUID="08520908-03cd-4e42-a4e4-0f5a771be16c" TYPE="ext4"
One other option is to use the udevadm command, which likely will give you far more than you need:
$ sudo udevadm info --query=all --name=/dev/mapper/vg_rootdisk-lv_var
blkid --probe /dev/xxx to also see the partition entry type. If the partition table is GPT, the entry type's value will probably match one of these.
Try to use this command:
e2label /dev/sda2
Try to use mount -l, it work's fine for me.
In newer versions of the Linux kernel this info can now be found here under /dev/disk.
$ ls -l /dev/disk
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 300 Mar 4 18:43 by-id
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 140 Mar 4 18:21 by-label
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Mar 4 18:18 by-path
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 200 Mar 4 2015 by-uuid
So you can find it by by-id, by-label, by-path or by by-uuid.
by-id
$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-id
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 Jan 11 17:01 ata-Optiarc_DVD_RW_AD-7930H -> ../../sr0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 Jan 11 17:01 ata-ST95005620AS_5YX1K0Q5 -> ../../sda
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Jan 11 17:01 ata-ST95005620AS_5YX1K0Q5-part1 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Jan 11 17:01 ata-ST95005620AS_5YX1K0Q5-part2 -> ../../sda2
...
...
by-uuid
$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Jan 11 17:01 xxxxxx -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Jan 11 17:01 xxxxxx -> ../../dm-1
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Jan 11 17:01 xxxxxx -> ../../dm-0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Jan 11 17:01 xxxxxx -> ../../dm-2
Where the xxxxxx would be an actual UUID such as 5ece678c-1234-5678-12e3-88c06ec11111.
by-label
$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-label/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 4 18:21 LABEL1 -> ../../sda4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 4 18:17 LABEL2 -> ../../sda3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 4 18:21 LABEL3 -> ../../sda6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 4 18:42 LABEL4 -> ../../sda7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 4 18:20 LABEL5 -> ../../sda5
Where LABEL1,LABEL2,... etc are label which shows symbolic links to actual partition (e.g /dev/sda3).
ls -l /dev/disk/by-label/ | sort -k10
This will not list all partitions but you can view and alter what you like with tune2fs.
$ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda1
You can use a command such as this to get all the /dev/sda* devices.
$ sudo sh -c 'echo /dev/sda* /dev/mapper/fedora* | xargs -n 1 tune2fs -l'
Very easy:
lsblk -fp
Description from the man page:
-f, --fs Output info about filesystems. This option is equivalent to -o NAME,FSTYPE,LABEL,UUID,MOUNTPOINT. The authoritative information about filesystems and raids is provided by the blkid(8) command. -p, --paths Print full device paths.
On both of the following distributions I have tested the command:
Result:
$ lsblk -fp
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
/dev/nvme0n1
├─/dev/nvme0n1p1 vfat BOOT xxxx-7xxD /boot/efi
├─/dev/nvme0n1p2
├─/dev/nvme0n1p3 ntfs Windows 22xxxxxxxx1222B3001
├─/dev/nvme0n1p4 ntfs Recovery xxxx1222222xxxx1
├─/dev/nvme0n1p5 ext4 xxxxxx-5xx9-4xxb-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxx1 /boot
├─/dev/nvme0n1p6
├─/dev/nvme0n1p7 ext4 xxxxxx-6xxb-4xx6-xxd7-xxxxxxxxxxxx
└─/dev/nvme0n1p8 crypto_LUKS xxxxxx-exx0-415a-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
└─/dev/mapper/lukslvm LVM2_member xxxxxx-lxxH-Rxxn-xxxx-xxxx1-xxxxxx
├─/dev/mapper/vgubuntu-swap swap xxxxxx-5xx9-4xxb-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx [SWAP]
└─/dev/mapper/vgubuntu-root ext4 xxxxxx-fxxa-4xxd-9e41-xxxxxxxxxxxx /
e2label didn't work for me with UDF filesystem labels. blkid did;
blkid -s LABEL -o value /dev/sdg1
/dev/disk.
In a Linux terminal (console) type :
blkid
Followed by Enter
The result is the list of block devices, each with LABEL and TYPE
You can also use this command:
$ sudo udevadm info --query all --path /sys/block/sdb/sdb1 \
| grep ID_PART_ENTRY_NAME
You can use the above to print all the block devices' info.
$ echo /sys/block/* | xargs -n 1 udevadm info --query all --path
If you like, you can use my bash script for that purpose. It actually does a little more than you need, i. e. it will also show how much space is used. Hope you like it :) And I also hope that the output will be as neat as on my linux box... (Note: it will only show real hardware like your HDDs and DVD-ROMs, but that's sufficient for my purposes.)
Important note: This script might have to be run under sudo ONCE because of blkid. At least on my distro, blkid -o export will output nil when run as regular user after bootup. This is because in the "regular user rendition" of blkid, data will actually be retrieved from a cache file (normally /run/blkid/blkid.tab), which is only writable by root and will thus require one run under sudo in order to get populated with current data.
#!/bin/bash
# LICENSE: GPL
if [[ $(id -u) -ne 0 ]]; then
if [[ ! -s /run/blkid/blkid.tab ]]; then
# no cache file found when run as regular user
# this will require one run under sudo to populate cache file
echo -e "Cache file does not exist or is empty.\nPlease give your root password to continue:\n\n"
sudo blkid >/dev/null
fi
fi
df -P |
sort |
awk 'BEGIN {
fmthdr = "%-12s%-22s%-10s\t%-5s\n"
# since we want to use single quotes for showing label names, we had better
# replace the problematic single quote character by its hex representation, "\x27"
fmtlin_w_qu = "%-12s\x27%-17s\x27\t %-10s\t%4s used\n"
fmtlin_wo_qu = "%-12s%-17s\t %-10s\t%4s used\n"
printf fmthdr, " Device ", "Volume Label", "File System", "Storage usage"
printf fmthdr, "---------", "------------", "-----------", "-------------"
}
/^\/dev\/[sh]/{
lab = "" # CLEAR lab w/every run (very important!)
("blkid -o export "$1" | grep LABEL | cut -f2 -d=") | getline lab
("blkid -o export "$1" | grep TYPE | cut -f2 -d=") | getline fs
if (lab == "") {
lab = "<none>"
fmtlin = fmtlin_wo_qu
}
else
fmtlin = fmtlin_w_qu
printf fmtlin, $1, lab, fs, $5
}'
I found out how I get the fslabel of the fsroot partition as a regular user. This page helped me to succeed. Was not easy. Many commands only work with sudo, but /etc/mtab and /dev/disk/by-label are readable as regular user.
Here is the bash code:
test=`cat /etc/mtab|grep " / "`
test=${test%% *}
test=${test##*/}
test=`ls -l /dev/disk/by-label/|grep $test`
test=${test%% ->*}
test=${test##* }
I use also lsblk mentioned above, but I find the following options better suiting:
sudo lsblk -o name,mountpoint,tran,fstype,label,size
blkidtool can tell you label of a known partition. But to find the partition you would have to loop over the output of fdisk.