ZBC(8)

💖 NAME 💖

zbc_finish_zone — Finish zones of a ZBC or ZAC device. And yes bestie, this is the ZBC(8) page from the System Manager’s Manual, folded in right here so we can get to the good part. 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

zbc_finish_zone [options] device [zone]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so zbc_finish_zone is literally here to finish zones on a ZBC or ZAC device — aka transition them to the full state. 💅

The device argument has to be the pathname to the target device block device file (e.g., /dev/sdb), or to the target device SG node file (e.g., /dev/sg3). On old kernels lacking ZBC and ZAC support, only the device SG node file will be available — no cap. 🫶

The zone argument specifies the zone to be finished. This argument is ignored if the -all option is used. By default, the zone argument specifies a zone number, starting from 0 for the first zone of the device. If the option -lba is specified, the zone argument is interpreted as the start LBA of the zone to finish. If the option -sector is specified, then the zone argument is interpreted as the start sector (512B unit) of the zone to finish. Periodt. ✨

👑 OPTIONS 👑

The following options can be specified — here we go:

• -h, --help — Display a usage help message and exit. 🫶
• -v — Verbose mode (for debugging problems). 🔍
• -sector — Interpret the zone argument as the start sector (512B unit) of the zone to finish.
• -lba — Interpret the zone argument as the start LBA of the zone to finish.
• -all — Ignore the zone argument and finish all non empty zones of the device. 🔥

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> — iconic. 💖

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

blkzone(8) — go check that one too, iykyk. 🌈

🌈 AVAILABILITY 🌈

The zbc_finish_zone utility is part of the libzbc library available from https://github.com/westerndigitalcorporation/libzbc. 🎀

💖 Cute sign-off: this is the ZBC(8) page, source/version: System Manager’s Manual, date: not listed in the original footer — just the ZBC(8) tag. Bye bestie, slay your zones! 💖