daxctl-enable-device(1)

daxctl-enable-device1

Enable a devdax device

Usage

daxctl enable-device <dax0.0> [<dax1.0> ... <daxY.Z>] [<options>]

Examples

• Enables dax0.1

# daxctl enable-device dax0.1
enabled 1 device

• Enables all devices in region id 0

# daxctl enable-device -r 0 all
enabled 3 devices

Overview

Enables a dax device in devdax mode.

Options

-r, --region=

Restrict the operation to devices belonging to the specified region(s). A device-dax region is a contiguous range of memory that hosts one or more /dev/daxX.Y devices, where X is the region id and Y is the device instance id.

-u, --human

By default the command will output machine-friendly raw-integer data. Instead, with this flag, numbers representing storage size will be formatted as human readable strings with units, other fields are converted to hexadecimal strings.

-v, --verbose

Emit more debug messages

Releases

4 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 11
  2. 12
  3. 13
  4. Arch

From ndctl 85-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.