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blockdev

BLOCKDEV(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       BLOCKDEV(8)

NAME

       blockdev - call block device ioctls from the command line

SYNOPSIS

       blockdev [options] commands devices
       blockdev --report [devices]

DESCRIPTION

       The utility blockdev allows one to call block device ioctls from the command line.

OPTIONS

       -V     Print version and exit.

       -q     Be quiet.

       -v     Be verbose.

       --report
	      Print a report for devices.  Note that the partition StartSec is in 512-byte sectors.

COMMANDS

       --setro
	      Set read-only.

       --setrw
	      Set read-write.

       --getro
	      Get read-only. Print 1 if the device is read-only, 0 otherwise.

       --getss
	      Print sectorsize in bytes - usually 512.

       --getbsz
	      Print blocksize in bytes.

       --setbsz N
	      Set blocksize to N bytes.

       --getsize
	      Print device size in sectors (BLKGETSIZE). Deprecated in favor of the --getsz option.

       --getsize64
	      Print device size in bytes (BLKGETSIZE64)

       --getsz
	      Get size in 512-byte sectors (BLKGETSIZE64 / 512).

       --setra N
	      Set readahead to N 512-byte sectors.

       --getra
	      Print readahead (in 512-byte sectors).

       --setfra N
	      Set filesystem readahead (same like --setra on 2.6 kernels).

       --getfra
	      Get filesystem readahead.

       --flushbufs
	      Flush buffers.

       --rereadpt
	      Reread partition table.

AUTHOR

       blockdev was written by Andries E. Brouwer.

AVAILABILITY

       The blockdev command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.

								     Jun 2007							       BLOCKDEV(8)

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