DEVINFO(8) Maintenance Commands and Procedures DEVINFO(8)
NAME
devinfo - print device specific information
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/devinfo -i device /usr/sbin/devinfo -p deviceDESCRIPTION
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:
o Device name
o Software version (not supported and prints as
0)
o Drive id number (not supported and prints as
0)
o Device blocks per cylinder
o Device bytes per block
o Number of device partitions with a block size
greater than zero
-p Prints the following device partition information:
o Device name
o Device major and minor numbers (in hexadecimal)
o Partition start block
o Number of blocks allocated to the partition
o Partition flag
o 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
attributes(7),
prtvtoc(8) May 8, 1997 DEVINFO(8)
