libnvme(2)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, welcome to libnvme(2) 💖 this one's short and sweet and I'm obsessed with it actually.

enum nvme_sanitize_sanact — Sanitize Action. that's it, that's the whole vibe. it's the enum that tells your NVMe drive which kind of sanitize operation you're asking for. lowkey iconic. 🧚

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

here's the shape of it, character for character, no cap:

enum nvme_sanitize_sanact {
    NVME_SANITIZE_SANACT_EXIT_FAILURE ,
    NVME_SANITIZE_SANACT_START_BLOCK_ERASE ,
    NVME_SANITIZE_SANACT_START_OVERWRITE ,
    NVME_SANITIZE_SANACT_START_CRYPTO_ERASE ,
    NVME_SANITIZE_SANACT_EXIT_MEDIA_VERIF

};

five constants, all up in there. 💅

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🎀 Constants 🎀

one bullet per constant, because we do NOT skip details in this household:

• NVME_SANITIZE_SANACT_EXIT_FAILURE — Exit Failure Mode. 🚪 like, we're bailing out of the failure state, periodt.
• NVME_SANITIZE_SANACT_START_BLOCK_ERASE — Start a Block Erase sanitize operation. 🧹 blocks? erased. bye.
• NVME_SANITIZE_SANACT_START_OVERWRITE — Start an Overwrite sanitize operation. ✍️ just writing over everything, main character energy.
• NVME_SANITIZE_SANACT_START_CRYPTO_ERASE — Start a Crypto Erase sanitize operation. 🔐✨ cryptographic erase, the way that it just vaporizes the key, iykyk.
• NVME_SANITIZE_SANACT_EXIT_MEDIA_VERIF — Exit Media Verification State. 📤 exiting the media verification state, we're done here bestie.

ngl, every single one of these is a sanitize action constant — that's the whole point of the enum, so don't get it twisted. and yes, NVME_SANITIZE_SANACT_EXIT_MEDIA_VERIF in the original has no trailing comma and no period on its description, so I'm not adding one. consistency 💀

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and that's the whole page!! go forth and sanitize responsibly, bestie 🫶

sign-off time: this page is enum nvme_sanitize_sanact from the libnvme(2) manual, dated July 2026 — slay, mwah 💖🎀🦋