NAME

devinfo - print device specific information

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

The devinfo command is used to print device specific information about disk devices on standard out.

The options have the following effect:

-i      prints the following device information:

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

This 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).