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 5.11							    8 May 1997							       devinfo(1M)