NVME-LNVM-INIT(1)

📦 version 1.16, in ubuntu jammy

✨ NAME ✨

nvme-lnvm-init — bestie, this is the one that initializes a LightNVM device with a media manager 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

nvme lnvm-init [--device-name=<DEVICE> | -d <DEVICE>]
                        [--mediamgr-name | -m]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so listen. This command initializes a LightNVM device. And here's the thing — a LightNVM/Open-Channel SSD literally cannot be exposed to the user until it has a media manager associated with it. Like, no media manager, no vibe, no device. It's giving "you can't sit with us until you have a plus-one." 🙈

By default, it initializes the general media manager on top of the device. So if you don't specify anything, that's what you get. Easy. Periodt. 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --device-name=<DEVICE>, -d <DEVICE> — the device name you wanna initialize, bestie. That's the one. 👑
  • --mediamgr-name=<MediaMgr>, -m <MediaMgr> — the Media Manager name to use for the initialization. Pick your fighter. ⭐

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

  1. Initialize nvme0n1
# nvme lnvm-init -d nvme0n1
  1. Initialize nvme0n1 with the gennvm media manager (that's the default media manager, iykyk)
# nvme lnvm-init -d nvme0n1 -m gennvm

👑 NVME 👑

This is part of the nvme-user suite. 🌈

And that's the whole page, bestie 💜 — this came straight out of the NVMe Manual, dated 11/11/2021, and it's all part of the nvme-user suite. Slay, go initialize something iconic. 🫶✨

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