ZBC(8)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so this is the ZBC(8) manual page from the System Manager's Manual, and the main character is zbc_info 💅 — it's literally the tool for getting information on a ZBC or ZAC device. That's the whole vibe: zoned block device info, no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

zbc_info [options] device

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So zbc_info is used to get information on a ZBC or ZAC device. That's the core, bestie.

The device argument must be the pathname to the target device block device file — like /dev/sdb — or to the target device SG node file, like /dev/sg3 🫶. On old kernels lacking ZBC and ZAC support, only the device SG node file will be available. The device argument may also point to a regular block device file used for emulating a zoned block device. In this case, the zone information of the emulated state will be displayed only if the option -e is specified. So yeah: emulated-device zone info is an -e situation, periodt 💅.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

The following options can be specified.

• -h, --help — displays a usage help message and exits.
• -v — verbose mode (for debugging problems).
• -e — prints information for an emulated device.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

sg_inq(8) — go check that one out too, bestie 🫶

🎀 AVAILABILITY 🎀

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

and that's the whole page, bestie — ZBC(8) from the System Manager's Manual. The footer has no extra version or date line to copy, just that ZBC(8) energy, so consider this your cute sign-off ✨💖🫶