NVME-SED-REVERT(1)

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💅 nvme-sed-revert(1) — the NVMe Manual, bestie edition 🎀

okay so real quick, this page lives in the NVMe Manual and it's called nvme-sed-revert. Buckle up, it's short but it's powerful ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

nvme-sed-revert — revert a SED Opal device from its locking state. That's it, that's the whole vibe. Your drive was locked, now it's not 🔓

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

nvme [<global-options>] sed revert
                        [ --destructive, -e ]
                        [ --psid, -p ]
                        <device>

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

You hand it an NVMe device and it reverts that device out of its locking state. Lowkey simple, highkey powerful — read the options before you go pressing buttons, fr fr 😭

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -e, --destructive — reverts the drive destructively, meaning the data gets erased 💀 like gone gone. No cap, this one eats your data.
  • -p, --psid — destructively reverts the drive using its PSID. Still destructive, still erasing, just riding in on the PSID instead 🫶

👑 GLOBAL OPTIONS 👑

These bad boys are defined up at the top-level nvme command, and they're available to this subcommand too — so you can absolutely use them here 💅

  • --dry-run — prints the command that would be executed, but does not actually execute it. Main character energy: all talk, no chaos 🙈
  • --no-ioctl-probing — disables probing for 64-bit IOCTL support.
  • --no-retries — disables retry logic on transient errors.
  • -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> — selects 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. periodt 🚫
  • --quiet — suppresses informational messages. Errors still get reported, and --quiet cancels any --verbose for the library log level. shhh 🤫
  • --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. mix and match, it's giving build-your-own 🧚
  • --timeout=<ms> — sets the timeout for the command in milliseconds. infinite or -1 waits without a time limit (0xffffffff). literally forever, no rush 🕰️
  • -v, --verbose — increases the level of detail in the output. You can specify it multiple times to further increase verbosity. more v's, more tea ☕
Also! These options can be set as machine-wide defaults in nvme-cli.conf(5). A command-line flag always overrides the file 🌈 so no fighting, the flag wins.

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

nvme sed revert /dev/nvme5n1

💜 NVME 💜

Part of nvme-cli. iykyk 😌

and that's the whole page, bestie! this one's from the NVMe crew, dated 10/30/2026 — go forth and revert responsibly, and maybe run --dry-run first yeah? 🎀🔥🦋

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