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Shell command: lsblk

lsblk lists block devices.

Options

-a --all Also list empty devices and RAM disk devices.
-b --bytes Print the SIZE column in bytes rather than in a human-readable format.
-D --discard Print information about the discarding capabilities (TRIM, UNMAP) for each device.
-d --nodeps Do not print holder devices or slaves. For example, lsblk --nodeps /dev/sda prints information about the sda device only.
-E --dedup column Use column as a de-duplication key to de-duplicate output tree. If the key is not available for the device, or the device is a partition and parental whole-disk device provides the same key than the device is always printed. The usual use case is to de-duplicate output on system multi-path devices, for example by -E WWN.
-e --exclude list Exclude the devices specified by the comma-separated list of major device numbers. Note that RAM disks (major=1) are excluded by default if --all is not specified. The filter is applied to the top-level devices only. This may be confusing for --list output format where hierarchy of the devices is not obvious.
-f --fs Output info about filesystems such as its type. This option is equivalent to -o NAME,FSTYPE,LABEL,UUID,FSAVAIL,FSUSE%,MOUNTPOINT. The authoritative information about filesystems and raids is provided by the blkid command.
-I --include list Include devices specified by the comma-separated list of major device numbers. The filter is applied to the top-level devices only. This may be confusing for --list output format where hierarchy of the devices is not obvious.
-i --ascii Use ASCII characters for tree formatting.
-J --json Use JSON output format. It's strongly recommended to use --output and also --tree if necessary.
-l --list Produce output in the form of a list. The output does not provide information about relationships between devices and since version 2.34 every device is printed only once if --pairs or --raw not specified (the parsable outputs are maintained in backwardly compatible way).
-M --merge Group parents of sub-trees to provide more readable output for RAIDs and Multi-path devices. The tree-like output is required.
-m --perms Output info about device owner, group and mode. This option is equivalent to -o NAME,SIZE,OWNER,GROUP,MODE.
-n --noheadings Do not print a header line.
-o --output list Specify which output columns to print. The columns may affect tree-like output. The default is to use tree for the column NAME (see also --tree). The default list of columns may be extended if list is specified in the format +list (e.g., lsblk -o +UUID).
-O --output-all Output all available columns.
-P --pairs Produce output in the form of key="value" pairs. The output lines are still ordered by dependencies. All potentially unsafe characters are hex-escaped (\x<code>).
-p --paths Print full device paths.
-r --raw Produce output in raw format. The output lines are still ordered by dependencies. All potentially unsafe characters are hex-escaped (\x<code>) in the NAME, KNAME, LABEL, PARTLABEL and MOUNTPOINT columns.
-S --scsi Output info about SCSI devices only. All partitions, slaves and holder devices are ignored.
-s --inverse Print dependencies in inverse order. If the --list output is requested then the lines are still ordered by dependencies.
-T --tree[=column] Force tree-like output format. If column is specified, then a tree is printed in the column. The default is NAME column.
-t --topology Output info about block-device topology. This option is equivalent to -o NAME,ALIGNMENT,MIN-IO,OPT-IO,PHY-SEC,LOG-SEC,ROTA,SCHED,RQ-SIZE,RA,WSAME.
-V --version Display version information and exit.
-x --sort column Sort output lines by column. This option enables --list output format by default. It is possible to use the option --tree to force tree-like output and than the tree branches are sorted by the column.
-z --zoned Print the zone model for each device.
--sysroot directory Gather data for a Linux instance other than the instance from which the lsblk command is issued. The specified directory is the system root of the Linux instance to be inspected. The real device nodes in the target directory can be replaced by text files with udev attributes.
-h --help Display help text and exit.

Available output columns

NAME device name
KNAME internal kernel device name
PATH path to the device node
MAJ:MIN major:minor device number
FSAVAIL filesystem size available
FSSIZE filesystem size
FSTYPE filesystem type
FSUSED filesystem size used
FSUSE% filesystem use percentage
FSVER filesystem version
MOUNTPOINT where the device is mounted
LABEL filesystem LABEL
UUID filesystem UUID
PTUUID partition table identifier (usually UUID)
PTTYPE partition table type
PARTTYPE partition type code or UUID
PARTTYPENAME partition type name
PARTLABEL partition LABEL
PARTUUID partition UUID
PARTFLAGS partition flags
RA read-ahead of the device
RO read-only device
RM removable device
HOTPLUG removable or hotplug device (usb, pcmcia, ...)
MODEL device identifier
SERIAL disk serial number
SIZE size of the device
STATE state of the device
OWNER user name
GROUP group name
MODE device node permissions
ALIGNMENT alignment offset
MIN-IO minimum I/O size
OPT-IO optimal I/O size
PHY-SEC physical sector size
LOG-SEC logical sector size
ROTA rotational device
SCHED I/O scheduler name
RQ-SIZE request queue size
TYPE device type
DISC-ALN discard alignment offset
DISC-GRAN discard granularity
DISC-MAX discard max bytes
DISC-ZERO discard zeroes data
WSAME write same max bytes
WWN unique storage identifier
RAND adds randomness
PKNAME internal parent kernel device name
HCTL Host:Channel:Target:Lun for SCSI
TRAN device transport type
SUBSYSTEMS de-duplicated chain of subsystems
REV device revision
VENDOR device vendor
ZONED zone model
DAX dax-capable device

See also

mount
lsblk is part of util-linux.
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