NetBSD/sbin/dkctl/dkctl.8

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.Dd December 26, 2005
.Dt DKCTL 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm dkctl
.Nd program to manipulate disks
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Ar device
.Ar command
.Op Ar arg Op ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
allows a user or system administrator to manipulate and configure disks
in various ways.
It is used by specifying a disk to manipulate, the command
to perform, and any arguments the command may require.
.Sh COMMANDS
The following commands are supported:
.Bl -tag -width XgetwedgeinfoX
.It Ic getcache
Get and display the cache enables for the specified device.
.It Ic setcache Ar none | r | w | rw Op Ar save
Set the cache enables for the specified device.
The enables are as follows:
.Bl -tag -offset indent -width XsaveX
.It none
Disable all caches on the disk.
.It r
Enable the read cache, and disable all other caches on the disk.
.It w
Enable the write cache, and disable all other caches on the disk.
.It rw
Enable both the read and write caches on the disk.
.It save
If specified, and the cache enables are savable, saves the cache
enables in the disk's non-volatile parameter storage.
.El
.It Ic synccache Op Ar force
Causes the cache on the disk to be synchronized, flushing all dirty
write cache blocks to the media.
If
.Ar force
is specified, the cache synchronization command will be issued even
if the kernel does not believe that there are any dirty cache blocks
in the disk's cache.
.It Ic keeplabel Op Ar yes | no
Specify to keep or drop the in-core disklabel on the last close of
the disk device.
(Keep if
.Ar yes
is specified, drop if
.Ar no
is specified.)
.It Ic badsector Ar flush | list | retry
Used for managing the kernel's bad sector list for
.Xr wd 4
devices.
The software bad sector list is only maintained if the option
.Dq WD_SOFTBADSECT
was specified on kernel configuration.
.Bl -tag -width XflushX -offset indent
.It flush
Clears the in kernel list of bad sectors.
.It list
Prints out the list of bad sector ranges recorded by the kernel.
.It retry
Flushes the in kernel list and then retries all of the previously recorded
bad sectors, causing the list to self update.
This option
.Em can only
be used with character devices.
.El
.It Ic addwedge Ar name Ar startblk Ar blkcnt Ar ptype
Define a
.Dq wedge
on the specified disk starting at block number
.Ar startblk
and spanning
.Ar blkcnt
blocks.
The wedge will have the volume name
.Ar name
and the partition type
.Ar ptype .
The device name of the virtual block device assigned to the wedge will be
displayed after the wedge has been successfully created.
See
.Xr dk 4
for more information about disk wedges.
.It Ic delwedge Ar dk
Delete the wedge specified by its device name
.Ar dk
from the specified disk.
.It Ic getwedgeinfo
Display information about the specified disk wedge.
.It Ic listwedges
List all of the wedges configured on the specified disk.
.It Ic strategy Op Ar name
To set and get the disk I/O scheduler (buffer queue
strategy) on the drive. To get the value, the argument
.Ar name
must not be specified. To set the bufq strategy, the
.Ar name
argument must be specified. Here's the explanation for this
argument:
.Bl -tag -width XnameX -offset indent
.It name
Will be one name of the built in kernel disk I/O schedulers.
To get the list, the following command can be used:
.El
.Bd -literal -offset indent
$ sysctl kern.bufq.strategies
.Ed
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ioctl 2 ,
.Xr dk 4 ,
.Xr sd 4 ,
.Xr wd 4 ,
.Xr disklabel 5 ,
.Xr atactl 8 ,
.Xr scsictl 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
command first appeared in
.Nx 1.6 .
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
command was written by
.An Jason R. Thorpe
of Wasabi Systems, Inc.