libblkid Reference Manual

for libblkid version 2.21.2

Copyright © 2009-2012 Karel Zak <[email protected]>

I. libblkid Overview

Config file — config file to control paths and basic library behavior

II. High-level

Tags and Spec evaluation — top-level API for LABEL and UUID evaluation.
Cache — basic routines to work with libblkid cache
Search and iterate — search devices and iterate over devices in the cache.

III. Low-level

Low-level probing — low-level prober initialization
Low-level tags — generic NAME=value interface.
Superblocks probing — filesystems and raids superblocks probing.
Partitions probing — partitions tables detection and parsing
Topology information — block device topology information.

IV. Common utils

Encoding utils — encode strings to safe udev-compatible formats
Miscellaneous utils — mix of various utils for low-level and high-level API