DAXCTL(1)

✨ DAXCTL(1) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the daxctl manual page — it lives in the daxctl Manual section of your friendly neighbourhood man pages, and honestly? she's short but she's iconic 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

daxctl — the utility that gives you enumeration and provisioning commands for the Linux kernel Device-DAX facility. that's the whole vibe. periodt 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

daxctl [--version] [--help] COMMAND [ARGS]

so you run daxctl, you maybe toss in a flag, and then you give it a COMMAND with its ARGS. that's the shape of it, no cap ✨

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💜 OPTIONS 💜

• -v, --version — shows you the daxctl version. that's it, that's the whole job 🫶
• -h, --help — runs the daxctl help command. your lil rescue raft when you're lost, iykyk 🙈

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🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

okay so here's the lore: the daxctl utility provides enumeration and provisioning commands for the Linux kernel Device-DAX facility.

and what does that facility do? it enables DAX mappings of performance / feature differentiated memory — without needing a filesystem. literally no filesystem required. she said "i don't need that middleman" and honestly? main character energy 👑🔥

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🍓 COPYRIGHT 🍓

Copyright © 2016 - 2022, Intel Corporation. License GPLv2: GNU GPL version 2 http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

yeah bestie, that's the legal bit — NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. read it, respect it 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• ndctl-create-namespace(1)
• ndctl-list(1)

go check those out too, they're in the same friend group 🫶

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that's the whole page, bestie — no notes 💖 this drop is from the daxctl corner of the daxctl Manual, dated 2026-06-30, and it goes by DAXCTL(1). mwah 💋🎀