From d7725fb45fe8d4fcb67cb9fbc117bc1cf66fcd56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 10:44:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 136/141] blkid: update man page about lsblk and ambivalent
probing
Upstream: http://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/12786a901520d7b30ff75ee8727221bf8a3089cb
Upstream: http://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/27fbfef33c1f23b5448b6cee856bcb3500b33c42
Addresses: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1501953
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
---
misc-utils/blkid.8 | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/misc-utils/blkid.8 b/misc-utils/blkid.8
index a974b8e99..1f12d202a 100644
--- a/misc-utils/blkid.8
+++ b/misc-utils/blkid.8
@@ -61,6 +61,23 @@ library. It can determine the type of content (e.g. filesystem or swap)
that a block device holds, and also the attributes (tokens, NAME=value pairs)
from the content metadata (e.g. LABEL or UUID fields).
.PP
+.B It is recommended to use
+.BR lsblk (8)
+.B command to get information about block devices, or lsblk --fs to get an overview of filesystems, or
+.BR findmnt (8)
+.B to search in already mounted filesystems.
+.PP
+.RS
+.BR lsblk (8)
+provides more information, better control on output formatting, easy to use in
+scripts and it does not require root permissions to get actual information.
+.B blkid
+reads information directly from devices and for non-root users
+it returns cached unverified information.
+.B blkid
+is mostly designed for system services and to test libblkid functionality.
+.RE
+.PP
When
.I device
is specified, tokens from only this device are displayed.
@@ -71,21 +88,19 @@ If none is given, all devices which appear in
.I /proc/partitions
are shown, if they are recognized.
.PP
-Note that
-.B blkid
-reads information directly from devices and for non-root users
-it returns cached unverified information. It is better to use
-.B lsblk --fs
-to get a user-friendly overview of filesystems and devices.
-.BR lsblk (8)
-is also easy to use in scripts.
-.B blkid
-is mostly designed for system services and to test libblkid functionality.
-.PP
.B blkid
has two main forms of operation: either searching for a device with a
specific NAME=value pair, or displaying NAME=value pairs for one or
more specified devices.
+.PP
+For security reasons
+.B blkid
+silently ignores all devices where the probing result is ambivalent (multiple
+colliding filesystems are detected). The low-level probing mode (\fB-p\fR)
+provides more information and extra return code in this case.
+It's recommended to use
+.BR wipefs (8)
+to get a detailed overview and to erase obsolete stuff (magic strings) from the device.
.SH OPTIONS
The \fIsize\fR and \fIoffset\fR arguments may be followed by the multiplicative
suffixes like KiB (=1024), MiB (=1024*1024), and so on for GiB, TiB, PiB, EiB, ZiB and YiB
@@ -264,7 +279,7 @@ identified, an exit code of 2 is returned.
For usage or other errors, an exit code of 4 is returned.
-If an ambivalent low-level probing result was detected, an exit code of 8 is
+If an ambivalent probing result was detected by low-level probing mode (\fB\-p\fR), an exit code of 8 is
returned.
.SH CONFIGURATION FILE
The standard location of the
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2.13.6