diff --git a/src/plugins/sfdisk/sfdiskbackend.cpp b/src/plugins/sfdisk/sfdiskbackend.cpp
index 842d13f..3a859fd 100644
--- a/src/plugins/sfdisk/sfdiskbackend.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/sfdisk/sfdiskbackend.cpp
@@ -464,12 +464,20 @@ FileSystem::Type SfdiskBackend::detectFileSystem(const QString& partitionPath)
                                  QStringLiteral("--query=property"),
                                  partitionPath });
 
-    QString udevTypeRegExp = QStringLiteral("ID_FS_TYPE=(\\w+)");
-    QString udevVersionRegExp = QStringLiteral("ID_FS_VERSION=(\\w+)");
+    QString typeRegExp = QStringLiteral("ID_FS_TYPE=(\\w+)");
+    QString versionRegExp = QStringLiteral("ID_FS_VERSION=(\\w+)");
 
     QString name = {};
 
-    rval = runDetectFileSystemCommand(udevCommand, udevTypeRegExp, udevVersionRegExp, name);
+    rval = runDetectFileSystemCommand(udevCommand, typeRegExp, versionRegExp, name);
+
+    // Fallback to blkid. blkid has slightly worse detection but it works on whole block device filesystems.
+    if (rval == FileSystem::Type::Unknown) {
+        ExternalCommand blkidCommand(QStringLiteral("blkid"), { partitionPath });
+        typeRegExp = QStringLiteral("TYPE=\"(\\w+)\"");
+        versionRegExp = QStringLiteral("SEC_TYPE=\"(\\w+)\"");
+        rval = runDetectFileSystemCommand(blkidCommand, typeRegExp, versionRegExp, name);
+    }
 
     if (rval == FileSystem::Type::Unknown) {
         qWarning() << "unknown file system type " << name << " on " << partitionPath;
diff --git a/src/util/externalcommand_whitelist.h b/src/util/externalcommand_whitelist.h
index 7ebae8d..4c52ced 100644
--- a/src/util/externalcommand_whitelist.h
+++ b/src/util/externalcommand_whitelist.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
-    SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018-2019 Andrius Štikonas <andrius@stikonas.eu>
+    SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018-2020 Andrius Štikonas <andrius@stikonas.eu>
     SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Shubham Jangra <aryan100jangid@gmail.com>
 
     SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ QStringLiteral("udevadm"),
 
 //Core programs
 QStringLiteral("blockdev"),
+QStringLiteral("blkid"),
 QStringLiteral("partx"),
 QStringLiteral("sfdisk"),
 QStringLiteral("wipefs"),