On Tue 08 Nov 2016 at 06:40:26 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 08 Nov 2016 at 04:58:05 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 11/7/2016 8:36 PM, Michael Lange wrote: > [...] > > >I think that the command Brian suggested: > > > > > > udevadm info --query=property --name=/dev/sda1 | grep ID_FS_TYPE > > > > > >used with every partition that is returned by > > > > > > cat /proc/partitions > > > > > >might be a good option for the OP. > > > > Actually I now have two options, "udevadm info" and "/sbin/blkid". > > >From Brian's comment on bug #776905, in future releases "blkid" > > may be an option. > > You may find useful information in /run/udev/data/b8:0 etc > without having to run any commands yourself. These files stay > up to date as devices are plugged/unplugged.
I thought so too, but went off the idea when trying to figure out which device was which and script it. udevadm (and lsblk) gets it information from /run/udev/data/ anyway. -- Brian.
