NVME-SELF-TEST-LO(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so welcome to NVME-SELF-TEST-LO(1), straight out of the NVMe Manual ✨ bestie, this one is nvme-self-test-log: it retrieves the log information initiated by device-self-test and displays it — and yes, it’s deprecated 💅.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

nvme [<global-options>] self-test-log <device>
                        [--log-entries=<entries> | -e <entries>]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This is a deprecated alias for nvme-log-self-test(1) — it’s kept around for scripts written against nvme-cli versions older than 3.0. Options and behavior are literally identical; only the top-level command name is retained, no cap 🫶.

New scripts should use nvme log self-test instead, bestie. This alias prints a deprecation warning on stderr and may be removed in a future release 😭.

See nvme-log-self-test(1) for the full option reference — that’s the main character for options 👑.

⚠️ deprecated alert: this alias is here for old scripts, but new scripts should use the new command.

✨ 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.
• --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 — that’s literally what the page says, bestie 😭 no example block to slay today.

💜 NVME 💜

Part of the nvme-user suite 🫶.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• nvme-log-self-test(1) — the full option reference, go check it 💅.

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okay bye bestie! source/version: NVMe, date: 10/30/2026 — mwah, stay slay ✨💖