blkid(8): Superficial comparision of versions from e2fsprogs and util-linux
Both e2fsprogs and util-linux ship a tool blkid: a frontend to the
libblkid library. I was interested in the differences between these two
tools. From my current understanding, util-linux's is a fork of an older
version from e2fsprogs. The change log of util-linux(-ng) 2.15 (shipped with
util-linux-2.21.1.tar.xz) reads:
The libblkid library has been moved from e2fsprogs to util-linux-ng.
If I take the help output of blkid of util-linux 2.21.1 and remove everything that blkid of e2fsprogs 1.42.1 already does, I end up with this:
# /sbin/blkid -h blkid from util-linux 2.21.1 (libblkid 2.21.0, 30-Mar-2012) [..] -d don't encode non-printing characters [..] -k list all known filesystems/RAIDs and exit [..] -t <token> find device with a specific token (NAME=value pair) [..] -U <uuid> convert UUID to device name [..] Low-level probing options: -p low-level superblocks probing (bypass cache) -i gather information about I/O limits -S <size> overwrite device size -O <offset> probe at the given offset -u <list> filter by "usage" (e.g. -u filesystem,raid) -n <list> filter by filesystem type (e.g. -n vfat,ext3)
In addition, parameter -o <format> supports "udev" and "export" more.