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135 lines
4.0 KiB
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.\" $NetBSD: dkctl.8,v 1.9 2003/07/13 09:53:10 lukem Exp $
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.\" Copyright 2002 Wasabi Systems, Inc.
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" Written by Jason R. Thorpe for Wasabi Systems, Inc.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
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.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
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.\" This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project by
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.\" Wasabi Systems, Inc.
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.\" 4. The name of Wasabi Systems, Inc. may not be used to endorse
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.\" or promote products derived from this software without specific prior
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.\" written permission.
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.\"
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY WASABI SYSTEMS, INC. ``AS IS'' AND
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.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED
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.\" TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
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.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.Dd July 13, 2003
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.Dt DKCTL 8
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm dkctl
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.Nd a program to manipulate disks
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Ar device
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.Ar command
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.Oo
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.Ar arg Oo ...
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.Oc
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.Oc
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm
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allows a user or system administrator to manipulate and configure disks
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in various ways.
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It is used by specifying a disk to manipulate, the command
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to perform, and any arguments the command may require.
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.Sh COMMANDS
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The following commands are supported:
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.Pp
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.Nm getcache
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.Pp
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Get and display the cache enables for the specified device.
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.Pp
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.Nm setcache
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.Ar none | r | w | rw
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.Op Ar save
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.Pp
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Set the cache enables for the specified device.
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The enables are as follows:
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It none
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Disable all caches on the disk.
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.It r
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Enable the read cache, and disable all other caches on the disk.
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.It w
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Enable the write cache, and disable all other caches on the disk.
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.It rw
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Enable both the read and write caches on the disk.
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.It save
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If specified, and the cache enables are savable, saves the cache
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enables in the disk's non-volatile parameter storage.
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.El
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.Pp
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.Nm synccache
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.Op Ar force
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.Pp
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Causes the cache on the disk to be synchronized, flushing all dirty
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write cache blocks to the media.
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If
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.Ar force
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is specified, the cache synchronization command will be issued even
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if the kernel does not believe that there are any dirty cache blocks
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in the disk's cache.
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.Pp
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.Nm keeplabel
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.Op Ar yes | no
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.Pp
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Specify to keep or drop the in-core disklabel on the last close of
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the disk device.
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(Keep if
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.Ar yes
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is specified, drop if
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.Ar no
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is specified.)
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.Pp
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.Nm badsector
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.Ar flush | list | retry
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.Pp
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Used for managing the kernel's bad sector list for wd* devices.
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It flush
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Clears the in kernel list of bad sectors.
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.It list
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Prints out the list of bad sector ranges recorded by the kernel.
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.It retry
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Flushes the in kernel list and then retries all of the previously recorded
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bad sectors, causing the list to self update.
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This option
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.Em can only
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be used with character devices.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr ioctl 2 ,
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.Xr sd 4 ,
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.Xr wd 4 ,
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.Xr disklabel 5
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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command first appeared in
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.Nx 1.6 .
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.Sh AUTHORS
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The
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.Nm
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command was written by Jason R. Thorpe of Wasabi Systems, Inc.
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