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blkid: add hint about lsblk to the man page 

Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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Karel Zak 2014-11-19 14:43:38 +01:00
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@ -61,6 +61,13 @@ 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
It is recommended to use
.BR lsblk (8)
command to get information about block devices rather than blkid.
.BR lsblk (8)
provides more information, better control on output formatting and it does not
require root permissions to get actual information.
.PP
When
.I device
is specified, tokens from only this device are displayed.
@ -302,7 +309,8 @@ and Karel Zak.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR libblkid (3),
.BR findfs (8),
.BR wipefs (8)
.BR wipefs (8),
.BR lsblk (8),
.SH AVAILABILITY
The blkid command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.