NAME¶

nvme - the dumb pci-e storage utility

SYNOPSIS¶

nvme <command> <device> [<args>]

DESCRIPTION¶

NVM-Express is a fast, scalable host controller interface designed to address the needs for PCI Express based solid state drives. This nvme program is a user space utility to provide standards compliant tooling for NVM-Express drives. It was made specifically for Linux as it relies on the IOCTLs defined by the mainline kernel driver.

NVME COMMANDS¶

The utility has sub-commands for all admin and io commands defined in the specification and for displaying controller registers. There is also an option to submit completely arbitrary commands. For a list of commands available, run "nvme help".

NVME CLI SUB-COMMANDS¶

Main commands¶

nvme-admin-passthru(1) nvme-compare(1) nvme-error-log(1) nvme-flush(1) nvme-dms(1) nvme-format(1) nvme-fw-activate(1) nvme-fw-download(1) nvme-fw-log(1) nvme-get-feature(1) nvme-get-log(1) nvme-smart-log(1) nvme-get-ns-id(1) nvme-help(1) nvme-id-ctrl(1) nvme-id-ns(1) nvme-create-ns(1) nvme-delete-ns(1) nvme-attach-ns(1) nvme-detach-ns(1) nvme-io-passthru(1) nvme-list-ns(1) nvme-list(1) nvme-list-ctrl(1) nvme-read(1) nvme-write(1) nvme-write-zeroes(1) nvme-write-uncor(1) nvme-resv-acquire(1) nvme-resv-register(1) nvme-resv-release(1) nvme-resv-report(1) nvme-security-recv(1) nvme-security-send(1) nvme-set-feature(1) nvme-show-regs(1) nvme-discover(1) nvme-connect(1)

FURTHER DOCUMENTATION¶

See the freely available references on the Official NVM-Express Site[1].

AUTHORS¶

This is written and maintained by Keith Busch[2].

REPORTING BUGS¶

Patches and issues may be submitted to the official repository at https://github.com/linux-nvme/nvme-cli or the Linux NVMe mailing list linux-nvme[3]

NVME¶

Part of the nvme suite

NOTES¶

1.

Official NVM-Express Site

2.

Keith Busch

3.

linux-nvme