fileSystems.<name>.device ‐ NixOS ‐ Searchix

fileSystems.<name>.device

The device as passed to mount.

This can be any of:

a filename of a block special device such as /dev/sdc3
a tag such as UUID=fdd68895-c307-4549-8c9c-90e44c71f5b7
(for bind mounts only) the source path
something else depending on the fsType. For example, nfs device may look like knuth.cwi.nl:/dir

This is called device in mount(8) and fs_spec in fstab(5).

Type

null or string (with check: non-empty)

Default

null

Example

"/dev/sda"

Declared