NVME-NVM-ID-NS-L(1)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to NVME-NVM-ID-NS-L(1) — the page from the NVMe Manual for nvme-nvm-id-ns-lba-format, aka the deprecated command that sends the NVMe Identify NVM Command Set specific Namespace data structure for a specified LBA format and displays the structure. Yes, that mouthful. It’s giving “legacy but still here.” 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

nvme [<global-options>] nvm-id-ns-lba-format <device>
                        [--uuid-index=<uuid-index> | -U <uuid_index>]
                        [--lba-format-index=<lba_format_index> | -i <lba_format_index>]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so real talk: this is a deprecated alias for nvme-id-nvm-ns-lba-format(1), kept around for scripts written against nvme-cli versions older than 3.0. The options and behavior are literally identical — the only thing that’s retained is the top-level command name. no cap. 🫶

New scripts should use nvme id nvm-ns-lba-format instead. This alias prints a deprecation warning on stderr and may be removed in a future release. So like… it still slays for old scripts, but don’t build your whole future on it. 😭

See nvme-id-nvm-ns-lba-format(1) for the full option reference. 💖

warning: deprecated alias! it warns on stderr and may disappear in a future release.

🌸 GLOBAL OPTIONS 🌸

The following options are defined at the top-level nvme command and are available to this subcommand:

• --dry-run — Print the command that would be executed, but do not actually execute it. Basically a vibe check before the actual command goes out.
• --no-ioctl-probing — Disable probing for 64-bit IOCTL support.
• --no-retries — Disable retry logic on transient errors.
• -o <fmt>, --output-format=<fmt> — Set the reporting format to normal, tabular, 'json, or binary. Only one output format may be used at a time.
• --output-format-version=<version> — Select the output format version. Version 1 uses the original field naming, while version 2 (default) provides more consistent and script-friendly field names. Other versions are rejected.
• --quiet — Suppress informational messages. Errors are still reported, and --quiet cancels any --verbose for the library log level.
• --set-options=<key=value>[,<key=value>...] — Set libnvme library options for this invocation. Supported keys are force-4k, mi-probe-enabled, test-base-dir and test-sysfs-dir.
• --timeout=<ms> — Set the timeout for the command in milliseconds. infinite or -1 waits without a time limit (0xffffffff).
• -v, --verbose — Increase the level of detail in the output. May be specified multiple times to further increase verbosity.

These options can also be set as machine-wide defaults in nvme-cli.conf(5). A command-line flag always overrides the file. 👑

🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

No Examples

💜 NVME 💜

Part of the nvme-user suite

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

nvme-id-nvm-ns-lba-format(1)

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bestie, that’s the whole page. source/version: NVMe — date: 10/30/2026. go forth and maybe use the non-deprecated one, mwah 💋✨