How do I find out which filesystem belongs to which LABEL?

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Very often LABEL is used on filesystem to make things easy to recognize partitions. In order to find out what filesystem the LABEL is pointing to, run the following command:

  findfs LABEL=[label]

This command can also be used to locate filesystems with UUID (Universally Unique Identifier) by replacing LABEL wit...

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