devinfo — Print Device-Specific Information

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/devinfo -i device
/usr/sbin/devinfo -p device

Description

Use the devinfo command to print device-specific information about disk devices on standard output. Only superuser can use this command.

Options

-i Print 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.

  • Number of device partitions with a block size greater than 0.

-p Print 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.

Various other commands use the

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