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devinfo

devinfo(1M)                                               System Administration 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 information about disk devices on standard out. The command can only be used by the
       superuser.

OPTIONS

       -i       Prints the following device information:

                  o  Device name

                  o  Software version (not supported and prints as 0)

                  o  Drive id number (not supported and prints as 0)

                  o  Device blocks per cylinder

                  o  Device bytes per block

                  o  Number of device partitions with a block size greater than zero

       -p       Prints the following device partition information:

                  o  Device name

                  o  Device major and minor numbers (in hexadecimal)

                  o  Partition start block

                  o  Number of blocks allocated to the partition

                  o  Partition flag

                  o  Partition tag

       This command is used by various other commands to obtain device specific  information for the making of file systems and determining parti-
       tion  information. If the device cannot be opened, an error message is reported.

OPERANDS

       device   Device name.

EXIT STATUS

       0        Successful operation.

       2        Operation failed.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcsu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       prtvtoc(1M), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10                                                          8 May 1997                                                         devinfo(1M)

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