Manual: findmnt
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NAME
findmnt - find a filesystem
SYNOPSIS
findmnt [options]
findmnt [options] device|mountpoint
findmnt [options] [--source] device [--target path|--mountpoint mountpoint]
DESCRIPTION
findmnt will list all mounted filesystems or search for a filesystem. The findmnt command is able to search in
/etc/fstab, /etc/mtab or /proc/self/mountinfo. If device or mountpoint is not given, all filesystems are shown.
The device may be specified by device name, major:minor numbers, filesystem label or UUID, or partition label or
UUID. Note that findmnt follows mount(8) behavior where a device name may be interpreted as a mountpoint (and vice
versa) if the --target, --mountpoint or --source options are not specified.
The command-line option --target accepts any file or directory and then findmnt displays the filesystem for the given
path.
The command prints all mounted filesystems in the tree-like format by default. The default output, is subject to
change. So whenever possible, you should avoid using default output in your scripts. Always explicitly define
expected columns by using --output columns-list in environments where a stable output is required.
The relationship between block devices and filesystems is not always one-to-one. The filesystem may use more block
devices. This is why findmnt provides SOURCE and SOURCES (pl.) columns. The column SOURCES displays all devices
where it is possible to find the same filesystem UUID (or another tag specified in fstab when executed with --fstab
and --evaluate).
OPTIONS
-A, --all
Disable all built-in filters and print all filesystems.
-a, --ascii
Use ascii characters for tree formatting.
-b, --bytes
Print the sizes in bytes rather than in a human-readable format.
By default, the unit, sizes are expressed in, is byte, and unit prefixes are in power of 2^10 (1024).
Abbreviations of symbols are exhibited truncated in order to reach a better readability, by exhibiting alone the
first letter of them; examples: "1 KiB" and "1 MiB" are respectively exhibited as "1 K" and "1 M", then omitting
on purpose the mention "iB", which is part of these abbreviations.
-C, --nocanonicalize
Do not canonicalize paths at all. This option affects the comparing of paths and the evaluation of tags (LABEL,
UUID, etc.).
-c, --canonicalize
Canonicalize all printed paths.
-D, --df
Imitate the output of df(1). This option is equivalent to -o SOURCE,FSTYPE,SIZE,USED,AVAIL,USE%,TARGET but
excludes all pseudo filesystems. Use --all to print all filesystems. See also -I, --dfi options.
-d, --direction word
The search direction, either forward or backward.
-e, --evaluate
Convert all tags (LABEL, UUID, PARTUUID, or PARTLABEL) to the corresponding device names for the SOURCE column.
It’s an unusual situation, but the same tag may be duplicated (used for more devices). For this purpose, there is
SOURCES (pl.) column. This column displays by multi-line cell all devices where the tag is detected by libblkid.
This option makes sense for fstab only.
--hyperlink[=mode]
Print mountpoint paths as terminal hyperlinks. The mode can be set to "always", "never", or "auto". The optional
argument when can be set to "auto", "never", or "always". If the when argument is omitted, it will default to
"auto". The "auto" setting means that hyperlinks will only be used if the output is on a terminal.
-F, --tab-file path
Search in an alternative file. If used with --fstab, --mtab or --kernel, then it overrides the default paths. If
specified more than once, then tree-like output is disabled (see the --list option).
-f, --first-only
Print the first matching filesystem only.
-H, --list-columns
List the available columns, use with --json or --raw to get output in machine-readable format.
-I, --dfi
Imitate the output of df(1) with its -i option. This option is equivalent to -o
SOURCE,FSTYPE,INO.TOTAL,INO.USED,INO.AVAIL,INO.USE%,TARGET but excludes all pseudo filesystems. Use --all to
print all filesystems.
-i, --invert
Invert the sense of matching.
--id number
Select a filesystem using the mount node ID.
--uniq-id number
Select a filesystem using the mount node 64-bit ID, use with --kernel=listmount option.
-J, --json
Use JSON output format.
-k, --kernel[=method]
Reads information about filesystems from the kernel. This is the default output. The format is tree-like and only
includes mount options managed by the kernel (see also --mtab).
The optional argument method is supported only for the long variant (--kernel). The short variant (-k) defaults
to the mountinfo method for backward compatibility. The supported methods can be either:
• mountinfo - this is the default method and it reads data from the /proc/self/mountinfo file.
• listmount - This is an EXPERIMENTAL method that uses the listmount() and statmount() syscalls to generate the
mount table. The output may not contain all details about mount nodes (for example, SOURCE is currently
missing).
-l, --list
Use the list output format. This output format is automatically enabled if the output is restricted by the -t,
-O, -S or -T option and the option --submounts is not used or if more that one source file (the option -F) is
specified.
-M, --mountpoint path
Explicitly define the mountpoint file or directory. See also --target.
-m, --mtab
Search in /etc/mtab. The output is in the list format by default (see --tree). The output may include user space
mount options.
-N, --task tid
Use alternative namespace /proc//mountinfo rather than the default /proc/self/mountinfo. If the option is
specified more than once, then tree-like output is disabled (see the --list option). See also the unshare(1)
command.
-n, --noheadings
Do not print a header line.
-O, --options list
Limit the set of printed filesystems. More than one option may be specified in a comma-separated list. The -t and
-O options are cumulative in effect. It is different from -t in that each option is matched exactly; a leading no
at the beginning does not have global meaning. The "no" can used for individual items in the list. The "no"
prefix interpretation can be disabled by "+" prefix.
-o, --output list
Define output columns. See the --help output to get a list of the currently supported columns. The TARGET column
contains tree formatting if the --list or --raw options are not specified.
The default list of columns may be extended if list is specified in the format +list (e.g., findmnt -o
+PROPAGATION).
--output-all
Output almost all available columns. The columns that require --poll are not included.
-P, --pairs
Produce output in the form of key="value" pairs. All potentially unsafe value characters are hex-escaped
(\x). See also option --shell.
Note that SOURCES column, use multi-line cells. In these cases, the column use an array-like formatting in the
output, for example name=("aaa" "bbb" "ccc").
-p, --poll[=list]
Monitor changes in the /proc/self/mountinfo file. Supported actions are: mount, umount, remount and move. More
than one action may be specified in a comma-separated list. All actions are monitored by default.
The time for which --poll will block can be restricted with the --timeout or --first-only options.
The standard columns always use the new version of the information from the mountinfo file, except the umount
action which is based on the original information cached by findmnt. The poll mode allows using extra columns:
ACTION
mount, umount, move or remount action name; this column is enabled by default
OLD-TARGET
available for umount and move actions
OLD-OPTIONS
available for umount and remount actions
--pseudo
Print only pseudo filesystems.
--shadow
Print only filesystems over-mounted by another filesystem.
-Q, --filter expr
Print only the filesystems that meet the conditions specified by the expr.
This feature is EXPERIMENTAL. See also scols-filter(5). For example, include xfs having more than 50% free space:
findmnt -Q 'INO.USED < INO.AVAIL && FSTYPE == "xfs"'
-R, --submounts
Print recursively all submounts for the selected filesystems. The restrictions defined by options -t, -O, -S, -T
and --direction are not applied to submounts. All submounts are always printed in tree-like order. The option
enables the tree-like output format by default. This option has no effect for --mtab or --fstab.
-r, --raw
Use raw output format. All potentially unsafe characters are hex-escaped (\x).
Note that column SOURCES, use multi-line cells. In these cases, the column may produce more strings on the same
line.
--real
Print only real filesystems.
-S, --source spec
Explicitly define the mount source. Supported specifications are device, maj:min, LABEL=label, UUID=uuid,
PARTLABEL=label and PARTUUID=uuid.
-s, --fstab
Search in /etc/fstab. The output is in the list format (see --list).
-T, --target path
Define the mount target. If path is not a mountpoint file or directory, then findmnt checks the path elements in
reverse order to get the mountpoint (this feature is supported only when searching in kernel files and
unsupported for --fstab). It’s recommended to use the option --mountpoint when checks of path elements are
unwanted and path is a strictly specified mountpoint.
-t, --types list
Limit the set of printed filesystems. More than one type may be specified in a comma-separated list. The list of
filesystem types can be prefixed with no to specify the filesystem types on which no action should be taken. For
more details see mount(8).
--tree
Enable tree-like output if possible. The options is silently ignored for tables where is missing child-parent
relation (e.g., fstab).
--shadowed
Print only filesystems over-mounted by another filesystem.
-U, --uniq
Ignore filesystems with duplicate mount targets, thus effectively skipping over-mounted mount points.
-u, --notruncate
Do not truncate text in columns. The default is to not truncate the TARGET, SOURCE, UUID, LABEL, PARTUUID,
PARTLABEL columns. This option disables text truncation also in all other columns.
-v, --nofsroot
Do not print a [/dir] in the SOURCE column for bind mounts or btrfs subvolumes.
-w, --timeout milliseconds
Specify an upper limit on the time for which --poll will block, in milliseconds.
-x, --verify
Check mount table content. The default is to verify /etc/fstab parsability and usability. It’s possible to use
this option also with --tab-file. It’s possible to specify source (device) or target (mountpoint) to filter mount
table. The option --verbose forces findmnt to print more details.
--verbose
Force findmnt to print more information (--verify only for now).
--vfs-all
When used with VFS-OPTIONS column, print all VFS (fs-independent) flags. This option is designed for auditing
purposes to list also default VFS kernel mount options which are normally not listed.
-y, --shell
The column name will be modified to contain only characters allowed for shell variable identifiers. This is
usable, for example, with --pairs. Note that this feature has been automatically enabled for --pairs in version
2.37, but due to compatibility issues, now it’s necessary to request this behavior by --shell.
-h, --help
Display help text and exit.
-V, --version
Display version and exit.
EXIT STATUS
The exit value is 0 if there is something to display, or 1 on any error (for example if no filesystem is found based
on the user’s filter specification, or the device path or mountpoint does not exist).
ENVIRONMENT
LIBMOUNT_FSTAB=
overrides the default location of the fstab file
LIBMOUNT_MTAB=
overrides the default location of the mtab file
LIBMOUNT_DEBUG=all
enables libmount debug output
LIBSMARTCOLS_DEBUG=all
enables libsmartcols debug output
LIBSMARTCOLS_DEBUG_PADDING=on
use visible padding characters.
EXAMPLES
findmnt --fstab -t nfs
Prints all NFS filesystems defined in /etc/fstab.
findmnt --fstab /mnt/foo
Prints all /etc/fstab filesystems where the mountpoint directory is /mnt/foo. It also prints bind mounts where
/mnt/foo is a source.
findmnt --fstab --target /mnt/foo
Prints all /etc/fstab filesystems where the mountpoint directory is /mnt/foo.
findmnt --fstab --evaluate
Prints all /etc/fstab filesystems and converts LABEL= and UUID= tags to the real device names.
findmnt -n --raw --evaluate --output=target LABEL=/boot
Prints only the mountpoint where the filesystem with label "/boot" is mounted.
findmnt --poll --mountpoint /mnt/foo
Monitors mount, unmount, remount and move on /mnt/foo.
findmnt --poll=umount --first-only --mountpoint /mnt/foo
Waits for /mnt/foo unmount.
findmnt --poll=remount -t ext3 -O ro
Monitors remounts to read-only mode on all ext3 filesystems.
AUTHORS
Karel Zak
SEE ALSO
fstab(5), mount(8) scols-filter(5)
REPORTING BUGS
For bug reports, use the issue tracker .
AVAILABILITY
The findmnt command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive
.
util-linux 2.41.3 2025-12-15 FINDMNT(8)