devinfo(1m) - osol9

1devinfo(1M)             System Administration Commands             devinfo(1M)
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NAME

6       devinfo - print device specific information
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SYNOPSIS

9       /usr/sbin/devinfo -i device
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DESCRIPTION

16       The  devinfo command is used to print device specific information about
17       disk devices on standard out. The command can only be used by the supe‐
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OPTIONS

21       -i    Prints the following device information:
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23                 o      Device name
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29                 o      Device blocks per cylinder
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33                 o      Number  of device partitions with a block size greater
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37       -p    Prints the following device partition information:
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39                 o      Device name
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41                 o      Device major and minor numbers (in hexadecimal)
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53       This command is used by various other commands to  obtain  device  spe‐
54       cific   information for the making of file systems and determining par‐
55       tition  information. If the device cannot be opened, an  error  message
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OPERANDS

59       device    Device name.
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EXIT STATUS

63       0    Successful operation.
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ATTRIBUTES

70       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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75       ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
76       │      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         │      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        │
77       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
78       │Availability                 │SUNWcsu                      │
79       └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
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