GZBD(8)

💖 GZBD — the zoned block device glow-up 💖

okay bestie, welcome to gzbd(8) from the System Manager's Manual 🎀 this is the manual page for the gzbd utility, and yes she's serving looks and functionality. let's get into it 💅

✨ NAME ✨

gzbd — zoned block device management graphical interface 🌸

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

gzbd [options] device

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

gzbd is a graphical user interface (yes bestie, a whole GUI, we're not living in the terminal for this one 🫶) that lets you look at a zoned block device's zones and run zone commands on them. the zone reset, open, close and finish commands can be applied to zones that you select from the list of zones on display. periodt. 💅

that zone list? you can filter it based on zone type and condition, so you're only looking at the zones you actually care about. iconic behaviour honestly.

zones also get represented graphically with colored boxes 📦🌈 — using a similar color coding as gzbd-viewer. so it's giving data visualization, it's giving aesthetic, it's giving both.

the device argument must be the pathname of the target zoned block device. no device, no vibes, no exceptions 🚫

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -?, --help — show help options and exit. bye bestie 👋
• --help-all — show all help options and exit. the full lore drop 📚
• --help-gtk — show GTK+ options and exit. for when you wanna know what GTK itself is bringing to the party 🎉
• -v, --verbose — use libzbd verbose mode (for debug). when something's acting up and you need the receipts 🔍
• -b, --block size — use size as the unit for displaying a zone position, length and write pointer position instead of the default byte value. so like… measure it in blocks instead of counting bytes one by one, we love efficiency 💀✨
• --display=DISPLAY — specify the X display to use. tell her where to show up 🖥️

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> — the legend, the icon, the moment 👑

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• zbd(8)
• gzbd-viewer(8)

go read those too, bestie, iykyk 🧚

💜 AVAILABILITY 💜

the gzbd utility is part of the libzbd library, available from:

https://github.com/westerndigitalcorporation/libzbd

ngl, that's the whole page. every flag, every path, every email, all of it. no cap 🫶

okay mwah, ily, go manage some zoned block devices 💖 this was gzbd, part of the System Manager's Manual, signing off as GZBD(8) — catch you in the group chat 🎀✨🦋