Use case: I have various USB sticks attached. Some of the sticks are mountable (actually auto-mounted), others are unmountable due to lack of drivers. I want to format one of them, and for that, I need the name of the device that the volume lives on. I haven't sprung that particular trap yet, but I'm very worried that I'll accidentally wipe my harddisk one day, due to "thick fingers" or being in a hurry or distracted. It would be nice if any volume, mounted or not, had device information: What device it's living on, what partition. I know that this information may be difficult to obtain, there's all kinds of virtual devices (DM, LVM2, image files, loopback devices, sshfs etc.). Still, if I see /dev/sdb I know that I'm looking at some real hardware and can act, and if I get something funny I'm no worse off than without that information.
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