System Administration Commands                        devinfo(1M)



NAME
     devinfo - print device specific information

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/sbin/devinfo -i device


     /usr/sbin/devinfo -p device


DESCRIPTION
     The devinfo command is used to print device specific  infor-
     mation  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  hexade-
                    cimal)

               o    Partition start block

               o    Number of blocks allocated to the partition

               o    Partition flag

               o    Partition tag







SunOS 5.11           Last change: 8 May 1997                    1






System Administration Commands                        devinfo(1M)



     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.


ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:



     
           ATRIBUTE TYPE               ATRIBUTE VALUE       
    
     Availability                 SUNWcsu                     
    


SEE ALSO
     prtvtoc(1M), attributes(5)
























SunOS 5.11           Last change: 8 May 1997                    2