NVME-ZNS-FINISH-Z(1)

💅 NVME-ZNS-FINISH-Z(1) — nvme-zns-finish-zone, straight from the NVMe Manual 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

nvme-zns-finish-zone — finishes one or all zones. That’s the whole vibe, bestie.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

nvme [<global-options>] zns finish-zone <device>
                                                       [--namespace-id=<NUM> | -n <NUM>]
                                                       [--start-lba=<LBA> | -s <LBA>]
                                                       [--select-all | -a]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so for the NVMe device you give it, this issues the Zone Management Send command with the “Finish Zone” action. On success, it will transition the zone to the full state. Slay.

The <device> parameter is mandatory — no skipping it, bestie — and may be either the NVMe character device (ex: /dev/nvme0), or a namespace block device (ex: /dev/nvme0n1).

💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -n <NUM>, --namespace-id=<NUM> — use the provided namespace id for the command. If you don’t provide it, the namespace id of the block device will be used. If the command is issued to a non-block device, the parameter is required, periodt. The broadcast value 0xffffffff can also be given as all or -1.
• -s <lba>, --start-lba=<lba> — the starting LBA of the zone to finish.
• -a, --select-all — select all zones for this action. It’s giving “do the whole group chat at once.”

🌈 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. Preview mode, no cap.
• --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. Highkey strict.
• --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. We love layers, honestly.

These options can also be set as machine-wide defaults in nvme-cli.conf(5). A command-line flag always overrides the file. 💅

🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

• Finish all zones on namespace 1:

# nvme zns finish-zone /dev/nvme0 -a -n 1

👑 NVME 👑

Part of nvme-cli.

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💖 Okay that’s the whole page — source/version NVMe, date 10/30/2026, page NVME-ZNS-FINISH-Z(1). Bye bestie, go finish some zones responsibly 🫶✨