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You can list and find everything about your block devices (hard drives, pen drives, etc.) with one great command.

$ lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda      8:0    0 465.8G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0   499M  0 part 
├─sda2   8:2    0   100M  0 part /boot
├─sda3   8:3    0    16M  0 part 
├─sda4   8:4    0 143.4G  0 part 
├─sda5   8:5    0   270G  0 part /
└─sda6   8:6    0  51.8G  0 part

You can specify which columns to print with -o <list>. For example, to show block device name and its filesystem UUID:

$ lsblk -o name,uuid
NAME   UUID
sda    
├─sda1 6C86CBD886CBA146
├─sda2 CE27-DB1F
├─sda3 
├─sda4 76BE2E00BE2DBA0F
├─sda5 cbbf7ee3-ba60-4cee-b0c4-e9bf918a4e8e
└─sda6 3089131888432118255
  • For a complete list of available columns, type lsblk --help. Some of the most useful columns are name, uuid, partuuid, label, size, fstype, mountpoint, path and partlabel (to show Windows partitions labels).

You can use this info, among other things, for editing /etc/fstab (fstab: what it is and how to use it) or formatting a file system (fsver column is useful when formatting FAT filesystems):

$ lsblk -o name,fstype,fsver
NAME   FSTYPE     FSVER
sda               
├─sda1 ntfs       
├─sda2 vfat       FAT32
├─sda3            
├─sda4 ntfs       
├─sda5 ext4       1.0
└─sda6 zfs_member 5000

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