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Name

devinfo - print device specific information

Synopsis

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

Availability

SUNWcsu

Description

The devinfo command is used to print device specific information about disk devices on standard out. The command can only be used by the super-user.

Options

-i
Prints the following device information: 
Device name
Software version (not supported and prints as 0 in Solaris 2.x)
Drive id number (not supported and prints as 0 in Solaris 2.x)
Device blocks per cylinder
Device bytes per block
Number of device partitions with a block size greater than zero

-pPrints the following device partition information:Device nameDevice major and minor numbers (in hexadecimal)Partition start blockNumber of blocks allocated to the partition Partition flagPartition tagThis command is used by various other
commands to obtain device specific information for the making of file systems and determining partition information.

See Also

prtvtoc(1M)

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