NVME-WDC-GET-ERRO(1)

💖 nvme-wdc-get-error-recovery-log 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the NVMe Manual ✨ this is the page for the WDC error-recovery-log plugin command, and yes it is a whole vibe.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

nvme-wdc-get-error-recovery-log — send the NVMe WDC get-error-recovery-log plugin command and return the parsed log output 🫶

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

nvme [<global-options>] wdc get-error-recovery-log <device>
                        [--output-format=<normal|json> | -o <normal|json>]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So for the NVMe device you give it, this sends a WDC plugin get-error-recovery-log command and outputs the error recovery log data. The --output-format option will format the output as specified 💅

The <device> parameter is mandatory, bestie — it may be either the NVMe character device (ex: /dev/nvme0).

🚨 This will only work on WDC devices supporting this log page. Results for any other device are undefined — like, truly undefined, so don't come for me if you try it on some rando device 😭

On success it returns the parsed error recovery log page data, error code otherwise. periodt.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

🌈 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 👑

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🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

• Has the program issue WDC get-error-recovery-log plugin command :

# nvme wdc get-error-recovery-log /dev/nvme0

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👑 NVME 👑

Part of the nvme-user suite. iconic behavior, honestly.

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