NVME-AVE-DISCOVERY(1)

📦 version 3.2, in arch rolling

💅 nvme-ave-discovery-log — a tale of a deprecated alias (NVMe Manual, bestie)

okay so first things first, the manual name is NVMe Manual and this whole page is about nvme-ave-discovery-log, which is lowkey a legacy icon at this point 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

nvme-ave-discovery-log — go grab the AVE Discovery Log and show it off (but like... it's deprecated, bestie 💀)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

nvme [<global-options>] ave-discovery-log <device> [--rae | -r]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the tea ☕: this is a deprecated alias for nvme-log-ave-discovery(1). It's still hanging around for the scripts that were written against nvme-cli versions older than 3.0. The options and behavior are identical — literally the only thing different is the top-level command name. no cap.

New scripts should use nvme log ave-discovery instead, fr fr. This alias prints a deprecation warning on stderr (yes, stderr, not stdout — it's calling you out publicly 😭) and it may be removed in a future release. So maybe don't get too attached? 🙈

For the full option reference, go see nvme-log-ave-discovery(1). That's where the real detail lives.

👑 GLOBAL OPTIONS 👑

These bad boys are defined at the top-level nvme command, and they're all available to this subcommand too. slay.

  • --dry-run — prints the command that would be executed, but doesn't actually execute it. it's giving rehearsal energy 🎭
  • --no-ioctl-probing — disables probing for 64-bit IOCTL support.
  • --no-retries — disables the retry logic on transient errors. one shot, one opportunity.
  • -o <fmt>, --output-format=<fmt> — sets the reporting format to normal, tabular, json, or binary. Only one output format at a time, bestie — pick your fighter ✨
  • --output-format-version=<version> — picks the output format version. Version 1 uses the original field naming, while version 2 (the default) gives you more consistent and script-friendly field names. Any other versions get rejected. rude but fair 💅
  • --quiet — suppresses informational messages. Errors are still reported though (you can't hide from the truth), and --quiet cancels any --verbose for the library log level.
  • --set-options=<key=value>[,<key=value>...] — sets libnvme library options for this invocation. The supported keys are force-4k, mi-probe-enabled, test-base-dir and test-sysfs-dir. mix and match, it's a whole vibe 🌈
  • --timeout=<ms> — sets the timeout for the command in milliseconds. infinite or -1 waits without a time limit (0xffffffff). patience is a virtue ig 🧘
  • -v, --verbose — increases the level of detail in the output. May be specified multiple times to further increase verbosity. stack that verbosity, queen 👑
These options can also be set as machine-wide defaults in nvme-cli.conf(5). A command-line flag always overrides the file. always. 💖

🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

No Examples 😭 (yes, that's genuinely what it says — the void has no examples for you today)

⭐ NVME ⭐

Part of the nvme-user suite. iconic family, no notes.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 NVMe, dated 10/30/2026 — go forth and use the non-deprecated command, i'm begging 🙏💜

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