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BLKZONE(8)                  System Administration                 BLKZONE(8)

NAME         top

       blkzone - run zone command on a device

SYNOPSIS         top

       blkzone command [options] device

DESCRIPTION         top

       blkzone is used to run zone command on device that support the Zoned
       Block Commands (ZBC) or Zoned-device ATA Commands (ZAC). The zones to
       operate on can be specified using the offset, count and length
       options.
       The device argument is the pathname of the block device.

COMMANDS         top

   report
       The command blkzone report is used to report device zone information.
       By default, the command will report all zones from the start of the
       block device. Options may be used to modify this behavior, changing
       the starting zone or the size of the report, as explained below.
       Report output
       start     Zone start sector
       len       Zone length in number of sectors
       wptr      Zone write pointer position
       reset     Reset write pointer recommended
       non-seq   Non-sequential write resources active
       cond      Zone condition
       type      Zone type
       Zone conditions
       cl   Closed
       nw   Not write pointer
       em   Empty
       fu   Full
       oe   Explicitly opened
       oi   Implicitly opened
       ol   Offline
       ro   Read only
       x?   Reserved conditions (should not be reported)
   reset
       The command blkzone reset is used to reset one or more zones. Unlike
       sg_reset_wp(8), this command operates from the block layer and can
       reset a range of zones.
       By default, the command will operate from the zone at device sector 0
       and reset all zones. Options may be used to modify this behavior as
       well as specify the operation to be performed on the zone, as
       explained below.

OPTIONS         top

       The offset and length option arguments may be followed by the
       multiplicative suffixes KiB (=1024), MiB (=1024*1024), and so on for
       GiB, TiB, PiB, EiB, ZiB and YiB (the "iB" is optional, e.g., "K" has
       the same meaning as "KiB") or the suffixes KB (=1000), MB
       (=1000*1000), and so on for GB, TB, PB, EB, ZB and YB.  Additionally,
       the 0x prefix can be used to specify offset and length in hex.
       -o, --offset sector
              The starting zone specified as a sector offset. The provided
              offset in sector units (512 bytes) should match the start of a
              zone. The default value is zero.
       -l, --length sectors
              The maximum number of sectors the command should operate on.
              The default value is the number of sectors remaining after
              offset. This option cannot be used together with the option
              --count.
       -c, --count count
              The maximum number of zones the command should operate on. The
              default value is the nuber of zones starting from offset. This
              option cannot be used together with the option --length.
       -v, --verbose
              Display the number of zones returned in the report or the
              range of sectors reset..
       -V, --version
              Display version information and exit.
       -h, --help
              Display help text and exit.

AUTHORS         top

       Shaun Tancheff <shaun@tancheff.com>
       Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>

SEE ALSO         top

       sg_rep_zones(8)

AVAILABILITY         top

       The blkzone command is part of the util-linux package and is
       available from Linux Kernel Archive 
       ⟨https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/⟩.

COLOPHON         top

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util-linux                      February 2017                     BLKZONE(8)