NVME-PERSISTENT-EV(1)

okay bestie, welcome to NVME-PERSISTENT-EV(1) — that's the page title, and it lives in the NVMe Manual. We're in full deprecated-alias era of nvme-cli, and honestly? It's giving vintage-script energy. 💅✨

💖 NAME 💖

nvme-persistent-event-log — Send NVMe persistent event log page request, returns result and log (deprecated).

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

nvme [<global-options>] persistent-event-log <device>
                               [--action=<action> | -a <action>]
                               [--log-len=<log-len> | -l <log-len>]
                               [--raw-binary | -b]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so this one is literally a deprecated alias for nvme-log-persistent-event(1), kept for scripts written against nvme-cli versions older than 3.0. Options and behavior are identical; only the top-level command name is retained. 💅

New scripts should use nvme log persistent-event instead. This alias prints a deprecation warning on stderr and may be removed in a future release. 🫶

See nvme-log-persistent-event(1) for the full option reference.

🌈 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. look, don't touch energy.
• --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 — yes, literally no examples, that's the whole section, bestie. 🙈

👑 NVME 👑

Part of the nvme-user suite.

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• nvme-log-persistent-event(1)

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source/version: NVMe · date: 10/30/2026 · page: NVME-PERSISTENT-EV(1) 🎀✨