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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man8/dkctl.8 b/static/netbsd/man8/dkctl.8 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5f7ceeda --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man8/dkctl.8 @@ -0,0 +1,231 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: dkctl.8,v 1.30 2024/09/14 08:30:44 mlelstv Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright 2002 Wasabi Systems, Inc. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Written by Jason R. Thorpe for Wasabi Systems, Inc. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project by +.\" Wasabi Systems, Inc. +.\" 4. The name of Wasabi Systems, Inc. may not be used to endorse +.\" or promote products derived from this software without specific prior +.\" written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY WASABI SYSTEMS, INC. ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED +.\" TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR +.\" PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL WASABI SYSTEMS, INC +.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR +.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF +.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS +.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN +.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) +.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE +.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.Dd March 29, 2020 +.Dt DKCTL 8 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm dkctl +.Nd program to manipulate disks +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm +.Ar device +.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. +.Ar device +is the disk (wdN, sdN, ...) containing the wedges unless noted otherwise. +If +.Nm +is called without any command, it displays strategy, cache, and all of +the wedges of the specified device. +.Sh COMMANDS +The following commands are supported: +.Bl -tag -width XXstrategyXXnameXX +.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. +You need to create the partition first with +.Xr fdisk 8 +or +.Xr gpt 8 , +.Nm +will just name it. +The wedge will have the volume name +.Ar name +and the partition type +.Ar ptype . +Valid choices for ptype would be +.Ar unused , +.Ar swap , +.Ar ffs , +.Ar lfs , +.Ar ext2fs , +.Ar cd9660 , +.Ar ados , +.Ar hfs , +.Ar msdos , +.Ar filecore , +.Ar raidframe , +.Ar ccd , +.Ar appleufs , +.Ar ntfs , +.Ar cgd , +and +.Ar zfs . +.Pp +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 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 XflushXX -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 delwedge Ar dk +Delete the wedge specified by its device name +.Ar dk +from the specified disk. +.It Ic getcache +Get and display the cache enables for the specified device. +.It Ic getwedgeinfo +Display information about the specified disk wedge. +.Ar device +in this case is the wedge name. +.It Ic getgeometry +Display media and sector size of the specified disk, wedge or volume. +.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 listwedges Oo Fl e Oc Op Fl q +List all of the wedges configured on the specified disk. +With +.Fl e +exit with a non-zero exit status if there are no wedges +configured on that disk. +With +.Fl q +(quiet mode) +there is no output related to the wedges that do, or do not, exist. +.It Ic makewedges +Delete all wedges configured on the specified disk, and autodiscover +the wedges again. +Wedges that are in use are not deleted and conflicting +or overlapping wedges are not created. +You need to list wedges to find out what has changed. +.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 strategy Op Ar name +Get and set the disk I/O scheduler (buffer queue strategy) on the +drive. +If you do not provide a +.Ar name +argument, the currently selected strategy will be shown. +To set the bufq strategy, the +.Ar name +argument must be specified. +.Ar name +must be the name of one of the built-in kernel disk I/O schedulers. +To get the list of supported schedulers, use the following command: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ sysctl kern.bufq.strategies +.Ed +.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. +.El +.Pp +Note: The +.Ic addwedge +and +.Ic delwedge +commands only modify the in-kernel representation of disks; for +modifying information on the disks themselves, refer to +.Xr fdisk 8 +or +.Xr gpt 8 . +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr ioctl 2 , +.Xr dk 4 , +.Xr sd 4 , +.Xr wd 4 , +.Xr disklabel 5 , +.Xr atactl 8 , +.Xr fdisk 8 , +.Xr gpt 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. |
