NVME-SNDK-CLEAR-F(1)

💅 nvme-sndk-clear-fw-activate-history — the NVMe Manual, but make it cute

okay so bestie, this one lives in the nvme manual, section 1. Buckle up, it's short but iconic 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

nvme-sndk-clear-fw-activate-history — literally just clears the firmware activate history table. that's the whole vibe. 🧹💖

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

nvme [<global-options>] sndk clear-fw-activate-history <device>

like, that's it. that's the call. slay.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so picture this: for the NVMe device you hand it, this command sends the sndk vendor unique clear fw activate history command. very demure, very mindful, very vendor-specific. ✨

the <device> parameter is mandatory — no skipping it, bestie, it's not optional — and it has to be the NVMe character device (ex: /dev/nvme0). 🫶

💀 real talk though: this will only work on Sandisk devices that support this feature. Results for any other device are undefined. like, genuinely undefined. not "we're being dramatic" undefined. so maybe don't, unless you're on the right hardware, iykyk.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

None 😌

(yes really. zero options. the flag list is empty. it's giving minimalist queen.)

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👑 GLOBAL OPTIONS 👑

these are the ones defined at the top-level nvme command, and they're available to this subcommand too. so even though we have no options of our own, we still get to borrow the whole closet. 🌈

• --dry-run — prints the command that would be executed, but does not actually execute it. window shopping, basically. 🛍️
• --no-ioctl-probing — disables probing for 64-bit IOCTL support. no poking around, we're just going in.
• --no-retries — disables retry logic on transient errors. one shot, no second chances. 💀
• -o <fmt>, --output-format=<fmt> — sets the reporting format to normal, tabular, json, or binary. only one output format at a time, we don't do multitasking here.
• --output-format-version=<version> — picks the output format version. version 1 uses the original field naming, while version 2 (default) gives you more consistent and script-friendly field names. any other version is rejected. no notes. 🚫
• --quiet — suppresses informational messages. errors are still reported, and --quiet cancels any --verbose for the library log level. it's the "i'm not reading all that" flag.
• --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. very much a build-your-own-sundae situation. 🍓
• --timeout=<ms> — sets the timeout for the command in milliseconds. infinite or -1 waits without a time limit (0xffffffff). no cap, literally, that's the value.
• -v, --verbose — increases the level of detail in the output. may be specified multiple times to further increase verbosity. the way that you can stack it… obsessed. 🔥

omg and also — these options can be set as machine-wide defaults in nvme-cli.conf(5). a command-line flag always overrides the file. file said one thing, flag said another, flag wins. periodt. 💅

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🌟 EXAMPLES 🌟

• clears the firmware activate history table:

# nvme sndk clear-fw-activate-history /dev/nvme0

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💜 NVME 💜

part of the nvme-user suite. we're in the family, bestie. 🫶

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⭐ one last vibe check: mandatory <device>, character device like /dev/nvme0, Sandisk-only, undefined elsewhere. got it? good. go slay. 🎀

that's the whole page!! written up in the NVMe Manual for nvme-sndk-clear-fw-activate-history — dated 10/30/2026, from the NVMe source, and it's exactly as extra as it needs to be ✨💖