nvme-cli is an NVMe management command line interface.
This offers a powerful feature set that follows the NVMe specification and is supported by all major distributions. It supports NVMe SSDs as well as NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) architecture and offers optional vendor plugins for supplemental information above and beyond the specification.
The nvme program is a user space utility to provide standards compliant tooling for NVM-Express drives. It was made specifically for Linux as it relies on the IOCTLs defined by the mainline kernel driver. The utility has sub-commands for all admin and io commands defined in the specification and for displaying controller registers. There is also an option to submit completely arbitrary commands.
Website: github.com/linux-nvme/nvme-cli
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Developer: NVM Express
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
nvme-cli is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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