NVME-NVM-ID-NS(1)

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💅 NVME-NVM-ID-NS 💅

okay so real talk bestie, this is the nvme-nvm-id-ns page from the NVMe Manual — yes, the whole manual, and yes she's a whole vibe. grab a strawberry drink 🍓 and let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

nvme-nvm-id-ns — send the NVMe Identify NVM Command Set specific Namespace data structure, and display the structure. also, heads up: this one's deprecated 🫶

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

nvme [<global-options>] nvm-id-ns <device>
                        [--uuid-index=<uuid-index> | -U <uuid_index>]
                        [--namespace-id=<NUM> | -n <NUM>]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this is a deprecated alias for nvme-id-nvm-ns(1), and the only reason it still exists is for scripts that were written against nvme-cli versions older than 3.0. That's it, that's the whole lore 😭 The options and the behavior are identical — literally the only thing being kept around is the top-level command name.

⚠️ New scripts? Bestie, please use nvme id nvm-ns instead. This alias prints a deprecation warning on stderr and may be removed in a future release — no cap, so don't build your whole house on it 💀

For the full option reference, go read nvme-id-nvm-ns(1). She ate, she has all the details 👑

⭐ GLOBAL OPTIONS ⭐

These options live at the top-level nvme command and are available to this subcommand too. Think of them as main character energy inherited from the parent 👑

  • --dry-run — prints the command that would be executed, but doesn't actually execute it. all the fantasy, none of the commitment 💅
  • --no-ioctl-probing — turns off probing for 64-bit IOCTL support ✨
  • --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 may be used at a time, so pick your fighter 🥊
  • --output-format-version=<version> — selects the output format version. Version 1 uses the original field naming, while version 2 (the default) provides more consistent and script-friendly field names. any other version gets rejected, periodt 🚫
  • --quiet — suppresses informational messages. errors are still reported, and --quiet cancels any --verbose for the library log level. she's giving silent but deadly 🌸
  • --set-options=<key=value>[,<key=value>...] — sets libnvme library options for this invocation. 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 without a time limit (0xffffffff). patient queen behavior ⏳
  • -v, --verbose — increases the level of detail in the output. may be specified multiple times to further increase verbosity — go off, stack it 🔥

oh and PSA: these options can also be set as machine-wide defaults in nvme-cli.conf(5). a command-line flag always overrides the file, every single time, no exceptions 💖

🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

No Examples

yeah. that's literally what it says. no examples. iconic of her honestly 🙈

👑 NVME 👑

Part of the nvme-user suite 🦋

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

and that's the whole page!! mwah 😘 this one came from NVMe, dated 10/30/2026 — screenshot it, save it, send it to the group chat, nvme-cli foreva 🧚💜

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