On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 07:22:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm working on a problem that requires as input an association of disk > partitions and their "label" (in gparted sense). > > I already have blkid and lsblk. They are obviously designed for different > purposes. They both _can_ supply the desired information. Neither is ideal > for me. > > Two questions (one asking for fish, the other asking to be taught to fish): > 1. what other commands should I look at?
Trivially, ls -al on /dev/disks/by* can show you a bunch of things. You are probably already aware of the contents of /proc/partitions and /proc/mounts, but I'll mention them anyway. > 2. is there some reference that groups commands/programs by similarity? Not as such, but... apropos partition will tell you about installed commands which have a man page prominently mentioning the word "partition". In this case you would also want to run apropos against "label" and "block". running "man -k" is almost the same; apropos takes more options. -dsr-