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devinfo 1M "8 May 1997" "SunOS 5.11" "System Administration Commands"
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:

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.

EXIT STATUS

0

Successful operation.

2

Operation failed.

SEE ALSO

prtvtoc(1M), attributes(5)