blockdev (8)
NAME
blockdev - call block device ioctls from the command lineSYNOPSIS
blockdev [-q] [-v] command [command...] device [device...]blockdev --report [device...]
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 the specified device. It is possible to give multiple devices. If none is given, all devices which appear in /proc/partitions are shown. Note that the partition StartSec is in 512-byte sectors.
COMMANDS
It is possible to give multiple devices and multiple commands.- --flushbufs
- Flush buffers.
- --getalignoff
- Get alignment offset.
- --getbsz
- Print blocksize in bytes.
- --getdiscardzeroes
- Get discard zeroes support status.
- --getfra
- Get filesystem readahead in 512-byte sectors.
- --getiomin
- Get minimum I/O size.
- --getioopt
- Get optimal I/O size.
- --getmaxsect
- Get max sectors per request
- --getpbsz
- Get physical block (sector) size.
- --getra
- Print readahead (in 512-byte sectors).
- --getro
- Get read-only. Print 1 if the device is read-only, 0 otherwise.
- --getsize64
- Print device size in bytes.
- --getsize
- Print device size (32-bit!) in sectors. Deprecated in favor of the --getsz option.
- --getss
- Print sectorsize in bytes - usually 512.
- --getsz
- Get size in 512-byte sectors.
- --rereadpt
- Reread partition table
- --setbsz bytes
- Set blocksize.
- --setfra sectors
- Set filesystem readahead (same like --setra on 2.6 kernels).
- --setra sectors
- Set readahead (in 512-byte sectors).
- --setro
- Set read-only.
- --setrw
- Set read-write.
AUTHOR
blockdev was written by Andries E. Brouwer and rewritten by Karel Zak.AVAILABILITY
The blockdev command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.