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| author | Karel Zak | 2006-12-07 00:25:44 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2006-12-07 00:25:44 +0100 |
| commit | 66ee8158b69525e12060ef558cb5d77feadab1dc (patch) | |
| tree | 08b30f2d07df9213f5647bc6f60b5090a263ef43 /disk-utils/blockdev.8 | |
| parent | Imported from util-linux-2.10m tarball. (diff) | |
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diff --git a/disk-utils/blockdev.8 b/disk-utils/blockdev.8 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..bde64265f --- /dev/null +++ b/disk-utils/blockdev.8 @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +.\" -*- nroff -*- +.\" Copyright 1998 Andries E. Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl) +.\" +.\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License +.TH BLOCKDEV 8 "May 2000" "" +.SH NAME +blockdev \- call block device ioctls from the command line +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B blockdev +.RI [ options ] +.I commands devices +.SH DESCRIPTION +The utility +.B blockdev +allows one to call block device ioctls from the command line. +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +.B \-V +Print version and exit. +.TP +.B \-q +Be quiet. +.TP +.B \-v +Be verbose. +.SH COMMANDS +.TP +.B \--setro +Set read-only. +.TP +.B \--setrw +Set read-write. +.TP +.B \--getro +Get read-only. Print 1 if the device is read-only, 0 otherwise. +.TP +.B \--getss +Print sectorsize in bytes - usually 512. +.TP +.B \--getsize +Print device capacity (in 512-byte sectors). +.TP +.BI \--setra " N" +Set readahead to +.I N +512-byte sectors. +.TP +.B \--getra +Print readahead (in 512-byte sectors). +.TP +.B \--flushbufs +Flush buffers. +.TP +.B \--rereadpt +Reread partition table. |