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29.\" $FreeBSD$
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31.Dd September 22, 2016
32.Dt DISKINFO 8
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm diskinfo
36.Nd get information about disk device
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.Nm
39.Op Fl citv
40.Ar disk ...
41.Sh DESCRIPTION
42The
43.Nm
44utility prints out information about a disk device,
45and optionally runs a naive performance test on the device.
46.Pp
47The following options are available:
48.Bl -tag -width ".Fl v"
49.It Fl v
50Print fields one per line with a descriptive comment.
51.It Fl c
52Perform a simple measurement of the I/O read command overhead.
53.It Fl i
54Perform a simple IOPS benchmark.
55.It Fl t
56Perform a simple and rather naive benchmark of the disks seek
57and transfer performance.
58.El
59.Pp
60If given no arguments, the output will be a single line per specified device
61with the following fields: device name, sectorsize, media size in bytes,
62media size in sectors, stripe size, stripe offset, firmware cylinders,
63firmware heads, and firmware sectors.
64The last three fields are only present if the information is available.
65.Sh HISTORY
66The
67.Nm
68command appeared in
69.Fx 5.1 .
70.Sh AUTHORS
71The
72.Nm
73utility was written by
74.An Poul-Henning Kamp Aq Mt phk@FreeBSD.org .
75.Sh BUGS
76There are in order of increasing severity: lies,
77damn lies, statistics, and computer benchmarks.
78