.PP
.B It is recommended to use
.BR lsblk (8)
-.B command to get information about block devices rather than blkid.
+.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 and it does not
-require root permissions to get actual information.
+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
.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
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