NVME-FW-LOG(1)

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💅 NVME-FW-LOG 💅

okay bestie, real talk — this one's a legacy page from the NVMe Manual, so let's get into it ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

nvme-fw-log — sends a request for the NVMe Firmware log page, hands you back the result and the log. also: it's deprecated, so like… heads up 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

nvme [<global-options>] fw-log <device> [--raw-binary | -b]

that's the whole vibe. <device> goes in, firmware log comes out 💖

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this is a deprecated alias for nvme-log-fw(1), and it's literally just hanging around for the scripts that were written against nvme-cli versions older than 3.0. the options and behavior are completely identical, ngl — the only thing kept alive here is the top-level command name. periodt.

new scripts? bestie, please use nvme log fw instead 🙈 this alias prints a deprecation warning on stderr and — lowkey important — may be removed in a future release. so don't get attached 💀

for the full option reference, go see nvme-log-fw(1). iykyk.

✨ GLOBAL OPTIONS ✨

these 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 does not actually execute it. it's giving window shopping 🛍️
  • --no-ioctl-probing — turns off probing for 64-bit IOCTL support. no probing, no problem 💅
  • --no-retries — disables 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 version gets rejected 🚫
  • --quiet — suppresses informational messages. errors still get reported, and --quiet cancels any --verbose for the library log level. it's the "shhh" of flags 🤫
  • --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 🌈
  • --timeout=<ms> — sets the timeout for the command in milliseconds. infinite or -1 waits with no time limit (0xffffffff). patience is a virtue fr fr ⭐
  • -v, --verbose — increases the level of detail in the output. you can specify it multiple times to crank the verbosity even higher. more is more 🔥

also important: these options can be set as machine-wide defaults in nvme-cli.conf(5) — but a command-line flag always overrides the file. file says one thing, flag says another, flag wins 👑

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

No Examples

(i know 😭 iconic of them honestly)

💜 NVME 💜

part of the nvme-user suite 🫶

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

alright that's the page, bestie — go read the real one and stay off the deprecated stuff 💅✨

this cutie came from the NVMe folks, dated 10/30/2026, and it lives at reference NVME-FW-LOG(1) — mwah, bye 🎀

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