DEVINFO(1M-SysV)    RISC/os Reference Manual     DEVINFO(1M-SysV)



NAME
     devinfo - print device specific information

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/lbin/devinfo -p special
     /usr/lbin/devinfo -i special

DESCRIPTION
     The devinfo command is used to print device specific infor-
     mation about disk devices on standard out.

     The options have the following effect:

     -i     option will print the following device information:

            Device name                     Software version
            Drive identification number     Device blocks per cylinder
            Device bytes per block          Number of device partitions with
                                              a block size greater than zero

     -p     will print the following device partition information:

            Device name                     Device major and minor numbers
            Partition start block           Number of blocks allocated to
                                              the partition
            Partition flag                  Partition tag

     The command is used by various other commands to obtain dev-
     ice specific information for the making of file systems and
     determining partition information.

SEE ALSO
     prtvtoc(1M).






















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