nvme-list-ctrl1
Send nvme identify list controllers, return result and structure (deprecated)
Usage
nvme [<global-options>]
list-ctrl
<device>
[{--cntid=<cntid> | -c
<cntid>}]
[{--namespace-id=<nsid> | -n
<nsid>}]
Overview
Deprecated alias for nvme-id-ctrl-list(1), kept for scripts written against nvme-cli versions older than 3.0. Options and behavior are identical; only the top-level command name is retained.
New scripts should use nvme id ctrl-list instead. This alias prints a deprecation warning on stderr and may be removed in a future release.
See nvme-id-ctrl-list(1) for the full option reference.
Options
The following options are defined at the top-level nvme command and are available to this subcommand:
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--dry-run -
Print the command that would be executed, but do not actually execute it.
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--no-ioctl-probing -
Disable probing for 64-bit IOCTL support.
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--no-retries -
Disable retry logic on transient errors.
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-o <fmt>, --output-format=<fmt> -
Set the reporting format to normal, tabular, 'json, or binary. Only one output format may be used at a time.
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--output-format-version=<version> -
Select the output format version. Version 1 uses the original field naming, while version 2 (default) provides more consistent and script-friendly field names. Other versions are rejected.
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--quiet -
Suppress informational messages. Errors are still reported, and --quiet cancels any --verbose for the library log level.
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--set-options=<key=value>[,<key=value>...] -
Set libnvme library options for this invocation. Supported keys are force-4k, mi-probe-enabled, test-base-dir and test-sysfs-dir.
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--timeout=<ms> -
Set the timeout for the command in milliseconds. infinite or -1 waits without a time limit (0xffffffff).
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-v, --verbose -
Increase the level of detail in the output. May be specified multiple times to further increase verbosity.
These options can also be set as machine-wide defaults in nvme-cli.conf(5). A command-line flag always overrides the file.
Examples
No Examples
Nvme
Part of the nvme-user suite
Releases
6 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 5 times.
--dry-run since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--no-ioctl-probing since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--no-retries since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--output-format since Debian 13 (Trixie);
--output-format-version since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--quiet since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--set-options since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--timeout since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--verbose since Debian 13 (Trixie);
-o since Debian 13 (Trixie);
-v since Debian 13 (Trixie).
--cntid until Debian 13 (Trixie);
--namespace-id until Debian 13 (Trixie);
-c until Debian 13 (Trixie);
-n until Debian 13 (Trixie).