bash command to display a partition label

Question

Which bash command shows the volume label?

That's not where the answer goes. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams May 08 '11 at 07:04 — Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams, May 08 '11 at 07:04
please leave the question section for.. questions.. – Sathyajith Bhat May 08 '11 at 12:39 — Sathyajith Bhat, May 08 '11 at 12:39

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered May 08 '11 at 10:56

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/sbin/blkid /dev/sdXY                    # needs rootpriv for internal drives
ls -l /dev/disk/by-label/ | grep sdXY    # workaround for unprivileged users

answered May 08 '11 at 10:56

I like the second line (even without grep) – ajo May 10 '11 at 09:16
http://askubuntu.com/questions/527790/list-all-partition-labels – Peter Cordes Feb 01 '15 at 16:44

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 10 '19 at 17:37

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To display the label for the currently mounted partition at / use:

lsblk -o LABEL,MOUNTPOINT | grep " /$" | cut -d' ' -f1

Added benefit no sudo required.

answered Aug 10 '19 at 17:37

WinEunuuchs2Unix

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bash command to display a partition label

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