devinfo

 

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 Maintenance Commands                                  devinfo(1M)
 
 
 


NAME
      devinfo - print device specific information
 


SYNOPSIS
      /usr/sbin/devinfo -i device
 
      /usr/sbin/devinfo -p device
 


DESCRIPTION
      The devinfo command is used to print device specific  infor-
      mation  about  disk devices on standard out. The command can
      only be used by the superuser.
 


OPTIONS
      -i    Prints the following device information:
 
               +  Device name
 
               +  Software version (not supported and prints as 0)
 
               +  Drive id number (not supported and prints as 0)
 
               +  Device blocks per cylinder
 
               +  Device bytes per block
 
               +  Number of device partitions with  a  block  size
                  greater than zero
 
      -p    Prints the following device partition information:
 
               +  Device name
 
               +  Device major and minor numbers (in hexadecimal)
 
               +  Partition start block
 
               +  Number of blocks allocated to the partition
 
               +  Partition flag
 
               +  Partition tag
 
      This command is used by various  other  commands  to  obtain
      device  specific  information for the making of file systems
      and determining partition  information. If the device cannot
      be opened, an error message is reported.
 


OPERANDS
      device
            Device name.
 
 
 
 
 SunOS 5.8            Last change: 8 May 1997                    1
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Maintenance Commands                                  devinfo(1M)
 
 
 
 EXIT STATUS
      0     Successful operation.
 
      2     Operation failed.
 


ATTRIBUTES
      See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
      butes:
 
      ____________________________________________________________
     |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
     |_____________________________|_____________________________|
     | Availability                | SUNWcsu                     |
     |_____________________________|_____________________________|
 
 


SEE ALSO
      prtvtoc(1M), attributes(5)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 SunOS 5.8            Last change: 8 May 1997                    2
 
 
 

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