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NVME-CREATE-NS(1) NVMe Manual NVME-CREATE-NS(1)

nvme-create-ns - Send NVMe Namespace management command to create namespace, returns results.

nvme create-ns <device> [--nsze=<nsze> | -s <nsze>]


                        [--ncap=<ncap> | -c <ncap>]


                        [--flbas=<flbas> | -f <flbas>]


                        [--dps=<dps> | -d <dps>]


                        [--nmic=<nmic> | -m <nmic>]

For the NVMe device given, sends a namespace management command to create the namespace with the requested settings. On success, the namespace identifier assigned by the controller is returned.

The <device> parameter is mandatory and may be either the NVMe character device (ex: /dev/nvme0), or a namespace block device (ex: /dev/nvme0n1).

-s, --nsze

The namespace size.

-c, --ncap

The namespace capacity.

-f, --flbas

The namespace formatted logical block size setting.

-d, --dps

The data protection settings.

-m, --nmic

Namespace multipath and sharing capabilities.

No examples provided yet.

Part of the nvme-user suite

01/08/2019 NVMe